[RFC] attempt to remove misc-embedded.c
Marcelo Tosatti
marcelo.tosatti at cyclades.com
Tue Apr 26 00:59:17 EST 2005
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 12:55:20PM -0700, Eugene Surovegin wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:36:19AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > So the plan is to move all cpu specific code in decompress_kernel() to cpu specific code :)
> >
> > Including
> >
> > #ifdef CONFIG_44x
> > /* Reset MAL */
> > mtdcr(DCRN_MALCR(DCRN_MAL_BASE), MALCR_MMSR);
> > /* Wait for reset */
> > while (mfdcr(DCRN_MALCR(DCRN_MAL_BASE)) & MALCR_MMSR) {};
> > /* Reset EMAC */
> > *(volatile unsigned long *)PPC44x_EMAC0_MR0 = 0x20000000;
> > __asm__ __volatile__("eieio");
> > #endif
>
> Hmm, strange, 2.4 has this code already moved to misc-44x.c, I wonder
> why this change never made it to 2.6.
>
> Marcelo, I assume you are going to make this look like 2.4, right?
Sure, that looks better.
Ok, so we can just make something minimal as misc-4xx, for 8xx, and
have everything which can be outside decompress_kernel() there.
One immediate advantage would be the INTERACTIVE_CONSOLE option.
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