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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.


CONFIG_PS3 is most natural to represent the support in 'platforms/ps3', so
I will use that symbol.


-Geoff