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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next prev parent 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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