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| author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2006-03-28 14:15:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2006-03-28 14:15:54 +0200 |
| commit | e8222502ee6157e2713da9e0792c21f4ad458d50 (patch) | |
| tree | 0f970fb99912c257a7e5254f863a53f79d22ab14 /Documentation/powerpc | |
| parent | ppc: Fix compile error in arch/ppc/lib/strcase.c (diff) | |
| download | linux-e8222502ee6157e2713da9e0792c21f4ad458d50.tar.xz linux-e8222502ee6157e2713da9e0792c21f4ad458d50.zip | |
[PATCH] powerpc: Kill _machine and hard-coded platform numbers
This removes statically assigned platform numbers and reworks the
powerpc platform probe code to use a better mechanism. With this,
board support files can simply declare a new machine type with a
macro, and implement a probe() function that uses the flattened
device-tree to detect if they apply for a given machine.
We now have a machine_is() macro that replaces the comparisons of
_machine with the various PLATFORM_* constants. This commit also
changes various drivers to use the new macro instead of looking at
_machine.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/powerpc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt index ee551c6ea235..217e51768b87 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt @@ -719,6 +719,11 @@ address which can extend beyond that limit. - model : this is your board name/model - #address-cells : address representation for "root" devices - #size-cells: the size representation for "root" devices + - device_type : This property shouldn't be necessary. However, if + you decide to create a device_type for your root node, make sure it + is _not_ "chrp" unless your platform is a pSeries or PAPR compliant + one for 64-bit, or a CHRP-type machine for 32-bit as this will + matched by the kernel this way. Additionally, some recommended properties are: |