Sorry , it is attached.
-- bryan
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
>
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
> -- Linus Torvalds
>
>
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 2002/01/22 20:52:05
@@ -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 ();
+ break;
}
strncpy(command_line, arcs_cmdline, sizeof command_line);
