[PATCH] powerpc: consolidate mpc83xx platform files

Kim Phillips kim.phillips at freescale.com
Wed Dec 13 09:51:39 EST 2006


On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:44:38 +1100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> 
> > well it depends on what you do with the _probe()s.  If you have multiple define_machine definitions built in, the generic probe will always succeed to match on the first machine probe_machine() tests, which may or may not be the machine it's currently running on.
> 
> Which is an argument for _NOT_ doing a generic probe !
> 
> Ben.
> 
> 
correct, not doing a generic probe with a file per board (if all it has is the ppc_md/ define_machine() in it), is bad.  It needs to be accompanied with its _probe().  Isn't that what the question was?

Kim



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