From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.lst.de (verein.lst.de [213.95.11.210]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0596D67C0A for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:45:47 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:45:29 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/16] powerpc: add support for ps3 platform Message-ID: <20061121134529.GA18620@lst.de> References: <4554DACB.8060809@am.sony.com> <17762.59947.937875.546225@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20061121132253.GA17530@lst.de> <200611211442.31667.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200611211442.31667.arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Olof Johansson , Paul Mackerras , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 02:42:30PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 21 November 2006 14:22, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > The whole port is hypervisor-specific. ?It should be called ps3hv or > > sonyhv (in case the plan for more hardware that's crippled by this > > hypervisor) > > The hypervisor has a name, it's called 'lv1', and the port already > uses that identifier for the low-level interfaces. > If the platform is named after the hypervisor, we should not make up > a new name but use the one that is already there. Actually that makes even more sense, yes. > > ps3 should be left for a bare metal port that people may or may not do > > If there will ever be a native port, that will not need its platform > directory but can simply go into into common platforms/cell/ and sysdev > directories, with a small file for the ppc_md instance. All the interesting > files (page table, iommu, interrupt handling) would be shared with native > ports to different hardware. I guess so, yes. We'd still add a CONFIG_PS3 for it to not bloat kernels that don't want support.