On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 07:01:38PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> > It would be very useful to print the ppc_md.name of the found machine
> > here, even without debugging enabled.
>
> Not sure ... without debugging enabled, it's likely that you won't see
> anything that early anyway :)
True, but it'd be in the dmesg, and get printed when the console comes up.
> > It's really weird that IBM chose to use "chrp" to describe a
> > PAPR-compliant platform. I guess it's for historical reasons, but it
> > sure isn't CHRP any more.
>
> Yup, I'm trying to get that changed in the architecture but even if I'm
> successful, we'll have to deal with existing machines.
Right, it was mostly a side comment.
> > > + is _not_ "chrp" as this will be matched by the kernel to be a
> > > + CHRP machine on 32 bits kernel or a pSeries on 64 bits kernels
> >
> > ...or a PAPR-compliant machine on 64-bit kernels.
> >
> > (Also, "xx-bit kernels", not "xx bits kernels").
>
> yeah yeah :) Thanks for the review anyway !
Hey, I couldn't find much technical issues, so I ended up reading your
comments and picking errors there instead. :-)
-Olof
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