[RFC] Monster boot cleanup patch #1

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Freitag, 17. September 2004 14:50, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> I've been working on making kexec possible the past couple of weeks,
> in order to real that goal, we need to cleanup significantly the
> interactions between prom_init and the rest of the kernel in order
> to provide a useable entry point _after_ prom_init.

Nice. 

>  typedef u32 ihandle32;
> 
> -extern char *prom_display_paths[];
> -extern unsigned int prom_num_displays;
> -
>  struct address_range {
>         unsigned long space;
>         unsigned long address;

I just tried building and found that the removal of these
globals from prom.c breaks compilation of drivers/video/offb.c.
Do you have a replacement mechanism in place somewhere?

	Arnd <><
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