Organisation of 4xx initialization code

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Nov 17 13:16:41 EST 2001


On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 11:50:44AM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 09:42:10AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote:
> > Leave the 440 out of this, it should never pollute the classic PPC
> > tree if it's done correctly.
>
> Yes and no.  That's probably true for the processor core, but it's
> likely to have onboard peripherals which are the same as or very
> similar to older 4xx designs.  It would be nice if we could share the
> code for handling these devices.

Right.  Which is why we need to seperate out peripherals from core so
that it will just work on any new 4xx processor, provided things didn't
get dramatically changed around.

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