Power3 problem?

[Tom Gall]

Tom Rini wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 Scott Carroll wrote:
>
> > While building for Power3 (p640), ChangeSet at 1.263, 2001-08-15:
>
> Arg!  I just fixed this, but the problem is this.  I took
> arch/ppc/kernel/l2cr.o out of the always-compiled list, and made it
> compile only for CONFIG_6xx (which is 6xx/7xx/74xx/82xx) since only
> 740/750 and 74xx (more or less) can make use of this.  The problem is
> that Power3 and Power4 pretend to be CONFIG_ALL_PPC, so that they can
> be a chrp machine easily.  The best way to fix this, I think would be to
> make the arch/ppc/kernel/chrp_* files compile without needed pmac_*,
> so that these machines could just work.  Paul, does this sound like
> a sane plan to you?

I agree, this sounds like a good idea. I suspect there's also room for
some of the routines in pmac_* to moved moved into more general files in
the cases they are truely pieces of shared code.

--
Regards,

Tom

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