[RFC/PATCH 5/14] powerpc: Fix 440/440A machine check handling
Olof Johansson
olof at lixom.net
Thu Nov 29 08:34:45 EST 2007
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 07:05:25AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 13:51 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > Hrm... it's per processor, not per board. I didn't feel like digging
> > > which board uses which processor and go fixup all the ppc_md's
> >
> > Sounds like something a generic function could probe for from the DTS.
> > I'll look at doing something here when I start making 44x
> > multiplatform
> > (soon).
>
> Well... we already probe the CPU type.... from cputable.
>
> So if there was a place to put that, it would be the cputable.
It could make sense to have _both_ platform (ppc_md) and cputable
functions, since some info is likely to be core-specific, other might
be board/chipset/SoC-specific.
-Olof
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