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From: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>
Subject: Re: Question on mpc52xx_common.c
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 20:25:05 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa686aa40804071925v6c7d28edna529e6122fdc9cf7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804080414.42867.arnd@arndb.de>

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Matt Sealey wrote:
>
> > Grant Likely wrote:
>  > >
>  > > Sure, why not?  If the firmware has already set it up correctly and no
>  > > devices using it are in use, then the kernel should be okay.  :-)
>  > > That said, I can't imagine choosing to not put the cdm node into the
>  > > device tree.
>  >
>  > *ahem* Efika.
>
>  Maybe we should just give up on making the efika boot with its regular
>  device tree and instead add a boot wrapper that either fixes up the
>  data provided by its firmware or just adds a proper dt blob?

Current kernels boot the Efika without any firmware scripts.
prom_init.c is able to handle the few fixups that the kernel really
wants to see.  (So life is mostly happy in Efika land now.  :-)

Cheers,
g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-08  2:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <m21w5map5f.fsf@ohwell.denx.de>
     [not found] ` <m2wsne9a4c.fsf@ohwell.denx.de>
2008-04-03 19:00   ` Question on mpc52xx_common.c Grant Likely
2008-04-07 22:31     ` Matt Sealey
2008-04-08  2:14       ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-04-08  2:25         ` Grant Likely [this message]
     [not found]           ` <23d2e4300804071926n57746a3cj551ef38bf10486c7@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]             ` <47FB3CD6.2090706@genesi-usa.com>
2008-04-08 14:52               ` Grant Likely
2008-04-08 19:45                 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-04-08 20:07                   ` Scott Wood
2008-04-08 23:51                     ` David Gibson
2008-04-09  6:18                       ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-04-08 20:12                   ` Timur Tabi
2008-04-08 21:26                   ` Grant Likely
2008-04-08 21:51                     ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-04-09 16:46                       ` Matt Sealey
2008-04-10  6:39                     ` Robert Schwebel
2008-04-08  7:56         ` Sven Luther

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