From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from de01egw02.freescale.net (de01egw02.freescale.net [192.88.165.103]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "de01egw02.freescale.net", Issuer "Thawte Premium Server CA" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 922E6DE017 for ; Fri, 4 May 2007 03:38:18 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <463A1E02.3000704@freescale.com> Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 12:38:10 -0500 From: Scott Wood MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olof Johansson Subject: Re: [PATCH] 86xx: Enable the AC97 interface on 8641D board. References: <1178142818.32136.51.camel@ld0161-tx32> <08D3A1CE-12E0-4759-B055-DE227EA4135E@kernel.crashing.org> <1178207725.17201.33.camel@ld0161-tx32> <20070503161000.GA31881@lixom.net> <1178209046.17201.55.camel@ld0161-tx32> <20070503172657.GA32312@lixom.net> In-Reply-To: <20070503172657.GA32312@lixom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Cc: "linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org" List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Olof Johansson wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:17:26AM -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote: >>Why do it there? We'd have to do it _again_ in Linux >>if we didn't come in from U-Boot anyway. > > The same argument could be used to motivate not doing any kind of board > inits in any firmware and do it all from the board code in linux. Not to mention that it's more likely that someone will use a different OS than different firmware, and then they'd have to duplicate the board code *there*. -Scott