On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > The following patch exports mips_machtype to modules. Please apply. > > Ok - but I'd like to burry the whole mips_machtype mechanism in 2.5. To > messy and requires a central authority to allocate machine types. What > do you think? No idea at the moment. For DECs things are pretty easy. The firmware returns a unique system ID for each different kind of hardware. It can be used instead (actually mips_machtype is initialized bazed on what firmware reports). The ID is mostly useful for system-specific stuff, e.g. onboard devices that cannot be identified or probed in another way. Note that for PCI-based systems, there is usually no problem -- PCI IDs can be used instead in most cases. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
