Merging ppc32 and ppc64
Kumar Gala
kumar.gala at freescale.com
Wed Aug 10 04:49:41 EST 2005
On Aug 9, 2005, at 12:47 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> 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 :)
Why argue later? Isn't part of the point of the merge to do cleanup
between ppc32 & ppc64. When would be the point to discuss this?
- kumar
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