[PATCH 7/16] powerpc: add support for ps3 platform

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Wed Nov 22 00:42:30 EST 2006


On Tuesday 21 November 2006 14:22, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The whole port is hypervisor-specific.  It should be called ps3hv or
> sonyhv (in case the plan for more hardware that's crippled by this
> hypervisor) 

The hypervisor has a name, it's called 'lv1', and the port already
uses that identifier for the low-level interfaces.
If the platform is named after the hypervisor, we should not make up
a new name but use the one that is already there.

> ps3 should be left for a bare metal port that people may or may not do 

If there will ever be a native port, that will not need its platform
directory but can simply go into into common platforms/cell/ and sysdev
directories, with a small file for the ppc_md instance. All the interesting
files (page table, iommu, interrupt handling) would be shared with native
ports to different hardware.

	Arnd <><



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