Re: [PATCH] Updating our sn code in 2.6

[Colin Ngam <cngam@sgi.com>]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 08:55:10PM -0600, Pat Gefre wrote:
> > + Well, the pci-reorg patch is just wrong with tht remaining stuff
> > + and breaks the portable I/O code for IP27 and SN2 I'm working on.
> >
> > I have not heard any compelling reasons for keeping non-ia64, non-Altix
> > code in the ia64, Altix code base. The code re-org is aimed towards a
> > new ASIC we are working on - we feel it is needed.
>
> Again, you can reorganize code as much as you want.  Just don't change
> macro names randomly.  And the reason is once again that there will be
> a code drop supporting SN2 and IP27 in the same codebase soon, going
> the usual linux way of architecture-independant drivers for common hardware.

Hi Christoph,

You are ofcourse talking about linux/drivers/.. right?

IP27 is not a supported architecture under linux/arch/ia64/sn/io/..
The IP27 MIPS processor/io hardware(bridge/Xbridge)/BIOS for IP27 are very much
different than our SN2 product, supported within the linux/arch/ia64 tree -
ia64 processors, IO Chipsets(PIC, TIO(CP,CA)), and System BIOS.

Is that not supported under the linux/arch/mips tree?

Happy Holidays all.

colin

>
>
> > + issues before merging, it's not that much anyway..
> >
> > I think I did. I sent another email with the changes I made for the
> > issues you raised - and updated the patches. If I missed any, please
> > let me know.
>
> Ok, I haven't looked at that yet.
>
> > David or Andrew can you take these patches ?
>
> Please backpourt the renaming first.
>
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