[PATCH 1/6] Start split out of common open firmware code

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Apr 25 23:07:34 EST 2007


>> The SPARC tree carries the same broken code -- is
>> this just a case of code copying, or are there
>> actual SPARC machines with such broken trees?
>
> There have been many cases of missed or even erroneous
> properties on sparc tree, but I am not too sure about
> the cell counting cases.
>
> Let's do this, once the consolidation is done keeping
> behavior as-is, give me a patch to review that changing
> the cell counting bits and I'll verify it against
> all the machines I have here plus some OFW tree dumps.

Okay, good plan.  Let's try this as soon as the current
patch series hits the powerpc tree.


Segher




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