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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:19:57 +1000
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] bootwrapper: arch/powerpc/boot code reorg
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Mark A. Greer writes:

> Abstract the operations used in the bootwrapper.  The operations
> have been divided up into platform operations (platform_ops),
> device tree operations (dt_ops), and console operations (console_ops).

Is there any particular reason why the call_kernel() method is in the
dt_ops?  That doesn't seem like a very natural place for it.  Is it
just so the dt_ops can say whether to pass NULL or the prom entry
point in r5?

Paul.