[RFC/PATCH] powerpc: Rewrite IO allocation & mapping on powerpc64

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue May 15 16:04:00 EST 2007


On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 06:33 +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> 
> Ben, can we have a config option to _not_ create a
> mapping for the legacy hardcoded stuff, even if there
> is an "isa" device node?  Some platforms do not need
> it or want it, and it can help find the remaining
> drivers that do this x86 nastiness.

Maybe separately... let's not introduce too much breakage in one
patch :-)

Ben.





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