[PATCH] nvram buffering/error logging port to 2.6

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Friday, Nov 7, 2003, at 14:27 US/Central, Anton Blanchard wrote:
>
> Having said that, maintaining compatibility between ppc32 and ppc64
> _is_
> important.

Yeah, I think that's a very cool thing about our architecture, both
from a technology and an end-user point of view.

> I got a message from one of the java guys that they will be using
> /proc/cpuinfo not /proc/ppc64/systemcfg for cpu probing. They need
> compatibility between ppc32 and ppc64 and writing two versions of cpu
> probing etc doesnt make sense.

Good for them! I'm pleasantly surprised to hear it. :) Sometimes it's
very easy for us to focus only on ppc64, when only trivial
modifications would extend the functionality of ppc32 as well.

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Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center


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