Subject: Re: [RFC] attempt to remove misc-embedded.c

From: Marcelo Tosatti <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:59:17 -0300

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 12:55:20PM -0700, Eugene Surovegin wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:36:19AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > So the plan is to move all cpu specific code in decompress_kernel() to cpu specific code :)
> > 
> > Including
> > 
> > #ifdef CONFIG_44x
> >         /* Reset MAL */
> >         mtdcr(DCRN_MALCR(DCRN_MAL_BASE), MALCR_MMSR);
> >         /* Wait for reset */
> >         while (mfdcr(DCRN_MALCR(DCRN_MAL_BASE)) & MALCR_MMSR) {};
> >         /* Reset EMAC */
> >         *(volatile unsigned long *)PPC44x_EMAC0_MR0 = 0x20000000;
> >         __asm__ __volatile__("eieio");
> > #endif
> 
> Hmm, strange, 2.4 has this code already moved to misc-44x.c, I wonder 
> why this change never made it to 2.6.
> 
> Marcelo, I assume you are going to make this look like 2.4, right?

Sure, that looks better. 

Ok, so we can just make something minimal as misc-4xx, for 8xx, and 
have everything which can be outside decompress_kernel() there.

One immediate advantage would be the INTERACTIVE_CONSOLE option.