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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 18:58:06 +0100
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>We shouldn't be #ifdef'ing externs, since it doesn't matter.  The
>pmac/prep/chrp ones were hidden just because the line above was, iirc.
>
>And the one downside to the GENERIC_PPC32 platform_init, is that we're
>back to adding:
>#ifdef CONFIG_x
> case _MACH_x:
>  x_init(...);
>  break;
>#endif
>
>Which I think Paul was happy to see die :)

No, in the version I'm implementing for 2.5, the ppc_md structure of
each board will be statically defined and contain the init function.
A global array will contain ppc_md pointers indexed by machine.

Ben.


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