[PATCH] Add USB to MPC8349 PB platform support

[Kumar Gala]

On Jul 19, 2006, at 3:13 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:

> Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>
>> Seems to me that it's far better to have init code in the kernel than
>> firmware. For one example, look at the x86 video card init problem
>> PowerPC Linux has. It's also far easier to fix/deploy Linux code than
>> firmware code, as Li observed, and on top of that it's less work for
>> non-UBoot firmwares in the future.
>
> I also agree 100%.  The boot loader should only be required to  
> initialize whatever hardware it uses.  The kernel should be  
> required to initialize whatever hardware it supports.  The kernel  
> should not assume that USB or PCI or whatever has already been  
> initialized by the boot loader.  This doesn't happen on x86, so we  
> should it happen on PPC?

Let's not drag what x86 does as a good or bad example of anything :)

- k