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From: Simon Horman <horms@verge•net.au>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint•cc>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org,
	Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix•de>,
	kexec@lists•infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: dtb and purgatory support for ppc32
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:37:36 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081015033735.GG27243@verge.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081012133955.GA7536@Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc>

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 03:39:55PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> * Simon Horman | 2008-10-08 14:03:26 [+1100]:
> 
> >> +#ifdef WITH_GAMECUBE
> >> +static int go_purgatory = 0;
> >> +#else
> >> +static int go_purgatory = 1;
> >> +#endif
> >
> >Can you just use WITH_GAMECUBE inside elf_ppc_load() and remove
> >the need for go_purgatory, or do you plan to make go_purgatory
> >switchable at run-time at some point in the future?

> For the first shot I would prefer to use WITH_GAMECUBE inside of
> elf_ppc_load(). In longterm I don't see any reason why GameCube can't
> use the purgatory code like the other archs and get the memory maps from
> the device tree. However I'm not sure if GameCube still runs on a recent
> kernel: now that arc/ppc isn't available anymore GameCube has to pass a
> dtb somehow and this isn't the case. So therefore I would like the keep
> #ifdef and the exisiting behavior until someone clears this up.

Ok, in this case I would like to request that you remove
go_purgatory (for now) and just use #ifdef WITH_GAMECUBE instead.
I think that it will make things cleaner (for now).

-- 
Simon Horman
  VA Linux Systems Japan K.K., Sydney, Australia Satellite Office
  H: www.vergenet.net/~horms/             W: www.valinux.co.jp/en

      reply	other threads:[~2008-10-15  3:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-01 21:20 [RFC] kexec support on Book-e, ppc32 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2008-10-01 21:20 ` [RFC] powerpc: add kexec support on Book-E Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2008-10-10  3:53   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-12 13:55     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2008-10-01 21:20 ` [RFC] powerpc: enable kexec support on mpc8544ds Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2008-10-01 21:20 ` [PATCH] powerpc: dtb and purgatory support for ppc32 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2008-10-02  3:54   ` Kumar Gala
2008-10-02  7:50     ` Sebastian Siewior
2008-10-02 10:05       ` Simon Horman
2008-10-03  5:44         ` Mohan Kumar M
2008-10-02 12:52   ` Kumar Gala
2008-10-02 13:03     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2008-10-08  3:03   ` Simon Horman
2008-10-12 13:39     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2008-10-15  3:37       ` Simon Horman [this message]

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