On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Bryan Chua wrote:
> I recall a bunch of disussion about changing arch/mips/setup.c to
> simplify adding vendor-specific platform code in setup_arch, but to date
> nothing has come of it. So while this is a dramatic oversimplification
> of the various proposals, how about this for now --
>
> just a vendor-defined function "platform_setup (void)" and it is up to
> the vendor to figure out what to do from there.
>
> -- bryan
>
>
> Index: arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/linux/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.96.2.3
> diff -u -r1.96.2.3 setup.c
> --- arch/mips/kernel/setup.c 2001/12/26 23:27:02 1.96.2.3
> +++ arch/mips/kernel/setup.c 2002/01/21 22:55:35
> @@ -666,6 +666,7 @@
> void it8172_setup(void);
> void swarm_setup(void);
> void hp_setup(void);
> +
> void platform_setup (void);
>
> unsigned long bootmap_size;
> unsigned long start_pfn, max_pfn, first_usable_pfn;
> @@ -793,7 +794,8 @@
> break;
> #endif
> default:
> -
> panic("Unsupported architecture");
> +
> platform_setup ();
> +
At first I thought: he's adding code after a call to panic(), but it turns out
your mailer screwed your patch...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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