From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 08:20:36 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Michael Sokolov Cc: linux-galileo@source.mvista.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: [Linux-galileo] ev64260 bi_rec patch Message-ID: <20020401152036.GA6360@opus.bloom.county> References: <3CA4EDA9.5C885292@mvista.com> <0203300045.AA13159@ivan.Harhan.ORG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <0203300045.AA13159@ivan.Harhan.ORG> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 04:45:43PM -0800, Michael Sokolov wrote: > > Mark A. Greer wrote: > > > Okay, the bi_recs need to be copied. Something for you to do over the weekend ;) > > I don't know how to do that in a way acceptable to you. I only know how to do > things my way, which I've done in my patch which you've pocket-vetoed. > IIRC, your original patch did the parsing in parse_bootinfo() or so in arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c which means each new driver bi_rec needs to modify arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c, which isn't nice. What we need is something like how we save Motorola residual data or bd_info stuffs (memcpy in platform_init). -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/