On 10/12/2010 11:44 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
This patch refactors the early init parsing of the chosen node so that architectures aren't forced to provide an empty implementation of early_init_dt_scan_chosen_arch. Instead, if an architecture wants to do something different, it can either use a wrapper function around early_init_dt_scan_chosen(), or it can replace it altogether. This patch was written in preparation to adding device tree support to both x86 ad MIPS. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely<grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
In conjunction with my 'MIPS: Add some irq definitins required by OF' and the '2/2 of/mips: Add device tree support to MIPS' patches, I can enable CONFIG_USE_OF, and build and run a kernel on my Octeon. I haven't started using the device tree yet, but this is a good start.
You can add my... Tested-by: David Daney <ddaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
--- arch/microblaze/kernel/prom.c | 5 ----- arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c | 12 ++++++++++-- drivers/of/fdt.c | 2 -- include/linux/of_fdt.h | 2 +- 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
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