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From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel•crashing.org>
To: "Mark A. Greer" <mgreer@mvista•com>
Cc: Michael Sokolov <msokolov@ivan•Harhan.ORG>,
	linux-galileo@source•mvista.com, linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-galileo] ev64260 bi_rec patch
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 11:53:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020401185335.GA23174@opus.bloom.county> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CA87831.974F719D@mvista.com>


On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 10:09:37AM -0500, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> Tom Rini wrote:
>
> > OK.  The problem is that the original PPC location of the bi_recs was
>
> Acutally, my problem was that I misread his respone.  I thought he was trying to
> say the find_bootinfo was in the bootloader or something like that.
>
> > So the always-correct call for platform_init() is:
> > parse_bootinfo((struct bi_record *) (r3 + KERNELBASE));
>
> Is there a reason we shouldn't just fix find_bootinfo then?

The intent of parse_bootinfo taking a location was to allow it to be a
per-platform thing.  Eg pmac/chrp/prep don't use r3, and can't always
anyhow.  Everything else uses r3 just because it's where the
bootloader/wrapper caneasily put things.

--
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-01 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-29 23:59 [Linux-galileo] ev64260 bi_rec patch Michael Sokolov
2002-03-29 22:24 ` Mark A. Greer
2002-03-29 22:30   ` Mark A. Greer
2002-03-29 22:41     ` Mark A. Greer
2002-03-30  0:45       ` Michael Sokolov
2002-04-01 15:20         ` Tom Rini
2002-04-01 15:25   ` Tom Rini
2002-04-01 15:09     ` Mark A. Greer
2002-04-01 18:53       ` Tom Rini [this message]
2002-04-01 19:52         ` Michael Sokolov
2002-04-01 20:21           ` Tom Rini
2002-04-02  2:38           ` Paul Mackerras
2002-04-02  2:50       ` Paul Mackerras
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-30  0:42 Michael Sokolov
2002-04-01 19:31 Michael Sokolov
2002-04-01 18:03 ` Mark A. Greer
2002-04-01 20:09 Michael Sokolov
2002-04-02  3:35 Michael Sokolov
2002-04-03  5:09 ` Troy Benjegerdes

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