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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Eval boards should not need to mess with ROOT_DEV
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On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 14:41 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > Powermac and pseries also do this weirdness.  Should it be removed
> > from there too?
> 
> We need benh to make a comment about powermac.
> 
> I think its ok to remove everywhere but we should see if he has any  
> issue.

PowerMac has some weirdo auto-detection code for root... I don't want to
remove it just yet.

Ben