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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix the LPC47M192 SuperIO on the MPC8641 HPCN
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 19:05:34 +0200
To: Wade Farnsworth <wfarnsworth@mvista.com>
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>> I'd just hide it all, do this setup in the firmware,
>> where it belongs, and don't expose the superio config
>> in the device tree.
>
> That's a valid point.  This probably could (should?) be handled by
> U-boot.

Yeah.  One more argument for this is that _every_
possible OS would need this code executed before
it runs.


Segher