rs/6000 e30 + 240 (doral) support

[Leigh Brown]

Gustavo Barbieri said:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:01:22 +0100 (BST), Leigh Brown
> <leigh at solinno.co.uk> wrote:
>> Christoph Hellwig said:
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:04:48AM -0300, Gustavo Barbieri wrote:
>> >> > Most doesn't look too bad to me, but it's a lot of patches.  I
>> vaguely
>> >> > remember they were discussed on linuxppc-dev, so we should check
>> the
>> >> > comments over there.
>> >>
>> >> A lot of patches? Well, there is a lot of "code"... it's not really
>> >> code, but just structure definitions... actually the patche touches
>> >> the real code at few points, one it's just a null pointer checking,
>> >> other are added cases to the switch statement so it can handle those
>> >> boards, so I really can't a problem there.
>> >>
>> >> I already sent an email to linuxppc-dev in the past, but no replies:
>> >>
>> >> http://lists.linuxppc.org/linuxppc-dev/200407/msg00085.html
>> >
>> > Ah sorry, I confused it with Len's big IBM prep patchkit.  Except for
>> a
>> > tiny style issue this patch is fine with me.
>> >
>> > Any upstream comments as I'd hate to carry along a patch like that in
>> > the Debian patchkit while we'd probably want it in Sarge.
>> >
>> > Gustavo, if we apply this patch you'll have to sign up for d-i testing
>> > on prep, though ;-)
>>
>> I have a more comprehensive set of patches that remove the need for
>> ugly hard-coded tables on RS/6000 PReP boxes, that I previously
>> posted to linuxppc-dev.  I'll freshen them up tonight and post them
>> again.  They provide generic support for the E20, E30, 140, 240, F30,
>> and F40 and probably a few other ones that we don't know about, if
>> we're lucky.  The F40 has problems but all the other work fine.
>
> Hello Leigh,
>
> Thanks for your original patch!
>
> This patch you mean is the one in the TODO of those files? Using residual
> data?

Correct.


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