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On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:22:54AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:

> >So long as you convert arch/ppc/boot/ to this as well, why not (or at
> >least being able to grab the infos from these structs somehow).
> >
> >Once everyone is on a flat tree, I don't object to killing all of the
> >old-style uart definitions steaming out of <asm-ppc/serial.h>.
> 
> Tom, do have a test system that I can look at converting that you  
> would be willing to test the changes to arch/ppc/boot for me.

With Matt's patch, you could boot a PReP kernel (no VGA con) :)
But if you convert LoPEC, I'll throw the kernel at it.

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Tom Rini
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