From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Armin <akuster@pacbell.net>
Cc: Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: First cut at large page support on 40x
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:33:30 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020614003330.GN4228@zax> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D08E0CD.4040806@pacbell.net>
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:13:33AM -0700, Armin wrote:
>
> David Gibson
> >
> >Heh, so instead we got a half-assed re-implementation (with a whole
> >bunch of extraneous pointless crap) in the form of the OCP layer.
> >
>
> Crap...this pointless crap has made it easier to add driver support to
> new IBM 4xx processors. And the Idea goes beyond PPC :) Cosmetic
> changes don't help make things not half-assed and mature. Flushing the
> idea, API's and usage does.
No actually. It's become easier to add driver support to new IBM 4xx
processors because of the several sensible and useful ideas that have
gone in along with all the extraneous pointless crap. All my ocp
patches have had the aim of leaving the former intact while
(gradually) removing the latter.
--
David Gibson | For every complex problem there is a
david@gibson.dropbear.id.au | solution which is simple, neat and
| wrong. -- H.L. Mencken
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-14 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-31 4:21 First cut at large page support on 40x David Gibson
2002-05-31 4:31 ` David Gibson
2002-06-04 0:43 ` Dan Malek
2002-06-04 3:59 ` David Gibson
2002-06-04 17:42 ` Dan Malek
2002-06-05 0:10 ` David Gibson
2002-06-05 17:25 ` Dan Malek
2002-06-06 1:35 ` David Gibson
2002-06-06 4:57 ` Dan Malek
2002-06-05 22:29 ` Paul Mackerras
2002-06-06 4:48 ` Dan Malek
2002-06-06 5:44 ` Paul Mackerras
2002-06-06 7:58 ` Dan Malek
2002-06-06 8:17 ` David Gibson
2002-06-12 3:52 ` David Gibson
2002-06-12 6:15 ` Dan Malek
2002-06-12 6:43 ` David Gibson
2002-06-12 15:19 ` Tom Rini
2002-06-12 23:23 ` Dan Malek
2002-06-12 23:42 ` Paul Mackerras
2002-06-13 0:28 ` Dan Malek
2002-06-13 1:01 ` Paul Mackerras
2002-06-13 4:16 ` Dan Malek
2002-06-13 5:12 ` David Gibson
2002-06-13 7:26 ` Dan Malek
2002-06-13 1:38 ` Paul Mackerras
2002-06-13 4:47 ` Dan Malek
2002-06-13 18:13 ` Armin
2002-06-14 0:33 ` David Gibson [this message]
2002-06-12 23:49 ` Paul Mackerras
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