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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: "Mark A. Greer" <mgreer@mvista.com>
Cc: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Michael Sokolov <msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG>,
	linux-galileo@source.mvista.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-galileo] ev64260 bi_rec patch
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 12:50:56 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15529.7312.132845.46847@argo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CA87831.974F719D@mvista.com>


Mark A. Greer writes:

> > So the always-correct call for platform_init() is:
> > parse_bootinfo((struct bi_record *) (r3 + KERNELBASE));
>
> Is there a reason we shouldn't just fix find_bootinfo then?

The reason why I split the original parse_bootinfo into two pieces,
find_bootinfo and parse_bootinfo, was to allow for the case where the
bootloader passes in the address of the bi_recs.  In other words,
if you know where the bi_recs are, you don't need to call
find_bootinfo, just parse_bootinfo.

Paul.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-02  2:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-29 23:59 [Linux-galileo] ev64260 bi_rec patch Michael Sokolov
2002-03-29 22:24 ` Mark A. Greer
2002-03-29 22:30   ` Mark A. Greer
2002-03-29 22:41     ` Mark A. Greer
2002-03-30  0:45       ` Michael Sokolov
2002-04-01 15:20         ` Tom Rini
2002-04-01 15:25   ` Tom Rini
2002-04-01 15:09     ` Mark A. Greer
2002-04-01 18:53       ` Tom Rini
2002-04-01 19:52         ` Michael Sokolov
2002-04-01 20:21           ` Tom Rini
2002-04-02  2:38           ` Paul Mackerras
2002-04-02  2:50       ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-30  0:42 Michael Sokolov
2002-04-01 19:31 Michael Sokolov
2002-04-01 18:03 ` Mark A. Greer
2002-04-01 20:09 Michael Sokolov
2002-04-02  3:35 Michael Sokolov
2002-04-03  5:09 ` Troy Benjegerdes

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