On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > Remove unused GROUP_TOSHIBA_NAMES. > > The whole machtype / machgroup stuff should probably be ripped out; I > think DECstation is the only to use it. Ages ago it was intended for > something which platform_devices are doing a much better job at > anyway. Well, the DECstation uses it for stuff like IRQ routing and system address map discovery, so some kind of enumeration will always be required. Essentially the firmware gives you a system ID you have to infer the rest from. Thus while not necessarily in <asm/bootinfo.h> such a list of system variations will have to live somewhere. Maciej
