Merging ppc32 and ppc64

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Aug 10 03:47:17 EST 2005


On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 12:41:54PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> 
> On Aug 9, 2005, at 11:21 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
[snip]
> >That's not 100% true because as Segher said, prom_init.c is part of  
> >the
> >kernel (tree, image), but is what does the translation.
> 
> I'm not sure I follow.  I understand that prom_init.c is part of the  
> kernel in ppc64.  I'm saying that such things should NOT be part of  
> the arch/powerpc kernel going forward.  They should be handled via  
> bootwrappers.

That's a "cleanup" we can argue about later, but I expect some
resistance :)

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Tom Rini
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