From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.188]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80FD167BFD for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:42:53 +1100 (EST) From: Arnd Bergmann To: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/16] powerpc: add support for ps3 platform Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:42:30 +0100 References: <4554DACB.8060809@am.sony.com> <17762.59947.937875.546225@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20061121132253.GA17530@lst.de> In-Reply-To: <20061121132253.GA17530@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <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 Tuesday 21 November 2006 14:22, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > The whole port is hypervisor-specific. =A0It should be called ps3hv or > sonyhv (in case the plan for more hardware that's crippled by this > hypervisor)=20 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. > ps3 should be left for a bare metal port that people may or may not do=20 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. Arnd <><