From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f7FI4g522331 for linux-mips-outgoing; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:04:42 -0700 Received: from gateway.total-knowledge.com (c1213523-b.smateo1.sfba.home.com [24.1.66.97]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f7FI4fj22325 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:04:41 -0700 Received: (qmail 8241 invoked by uid 502); 15 Aug 2001 18:04:40 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Ilya Volynets Reply-To: ilya@theIlya.com Organization: Total knowledge To: Keith M Wesolowski , "Maciej W. Rozycki" Subject: Re: [patch] linux 2.4.5: Export mips_machtype Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:04:37 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: "Gleb O. Raiko" , Ralf Baechle , Harald Koerfgen , linux-mips@fnet.fr, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com References: <20010815104435.A8370@foobazco.org> In-Reply-To: <20010815104435.A8370@foobazco.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0108151104370T.07543@gateway> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 15 August 2001 10:44, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 07:43:23PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > How do you set up mips_machtype on your system in the first place? At > > kernel_entry the code does not know what machine it's running on anyway, > > so it has to set mips_machtype based on a detection algorithm. > > Of course. I published a patch and some documentation a long time ago > for doing just this. I don't think anyone ever even read any of it; I > received no comments. In any case it's currently used in my tree for > O2 and although I know it could be better it seems to work rather > well. Not true. I read it, and thought it's good enough to leave as is :-) No comments seemed to be nessesary. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjt6ubgACgkQtKh84cA8u2nZhgCg2eg3Z48ZjXca9x3Rctt48Jj9 oisAoKEF2LQz3tnIc+I+j6nfSnOdFKgG =+aUM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----