From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
Cc: ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>, linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: OF /chosen/initrd,* variables - patch, official?
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:44:29 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070822014429.GF12472@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46CAF5B4.9040606@genesi-usa.com>
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 03:24:52PM +0100, Matt Sealey wrote:
> David Gibson wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 01:58:31PM +0100, Matt Sealey wrote:
> >> David Gibson wrote:
> >>> Uh... no... this is in the bootwrapper, long before ppc_md even
> >>> exists. platform_init() is called from arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S,
> >>> immediately before main().
> >> Oh *THAT* platform init.
> >>
> >> So I could just drop a
> >>
> >> } else {
> >> dt_find_initrd();
> >> }
> >>
> >> .. at the end and nobody would be too disgusted or have any problems?
> >
> > Err.. at the end of what? Each platform has it's own version of
> > platform_init().
>
> arch/powerpc/boot/of.c since it's not really relevant to me for non-OF
> platforms?
Err... it would have to be a somewhat strange OF implementation that
gives the linux,initrd-* properties sane values before entry... I
doubt we want to do this for all real OF systems.
--
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-22 1:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-21 11:12 OF /chosen/initrd,* variables - patch, official? Matt Sealey
2007-08-21 11:21 ` Matt Sealey
2007-08-21 11:32 ` David Gibson
2007-08-21 12:19 ` Linux 2.6.23.rc3 boot issues on XUPV2P Computer - Service
2007-08-21 12:52 ` Grant Likely
2007-08-21 12:36 ` OF /chosen/initrd,* variables - patch, official? Matt Sealey
2007-08-21 12:42 ` David Gibson
2007-08-21 12:58 ` Matt Sealey
2007-08-21 13:54 ` David Gibson
2007-08-21 14:24 ` Matt Sealey
2007-08-22 1:44 ` David Gibson [this message]
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