Question on mpc52xx_common.c

[Grant Likely]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Matt Sealey wrote:
>
> > Grant Likely wrote:
>  > >
>  > > Sure, why not?  If the firmware has already set it up correctly and no
>  > > devices using it are in use, then the kernel should be okay.  :-)
>  > > That said, I can't imagine choosing to not put the cdm node into the
>  > > device tree.
>  >
>  > *ahem* Efika.
>
>  Maybe we should just give up on making the efika boot with its regular
>  device tree and instead add a boot wrapper that either fixes up the
>  data provided by its firmware or just adds a proper dt blob?

Current kernels boot the Efika without any firmware scripts.
prom_init.c is able to handle the few fixups that the kernel really
wants to see.  (So life is mostly happy in Efika land now.  :-)

Cheers,
g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.