Re: [Linux-mips-kernel] Alchemy Au1000 updates

[Pete P. <pp...@mv...>]

James Simmons wrote:

>>I just updated most of the Alchemy Au1000 files.  
>>
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>Great work.
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>>which modifies arch/mips/kernel/head.S (inside ifdefs) to deal 
>>with 36 bit physical addresses of that cpu only.  I would like to get 
>>some comments on whether this can be accepted in an external tree like 
>>this one.
>>
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>Hum. Shouldn't this be CPU specific? 
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The code that's inside ifdefs is cpu specific. But right now there's 
only one head.S file so there's no other place to put it.  If I create a 
new head.S (au1000_head.S, for example), then I would have to modify 
arch/mips/Makefile.   Another option is to put in a new except_vec0_xxxx 
routine, which is the routine I've modified. There's already a few of 
those for different cpus, so there's a precedent there.    Hmm, I think 
that's what I should do.

>Regarding the pcmcia, how about if I bring in only the files I need for 
>this board (which unfortunately is most of the files under 
>drivers/pcmcia)?
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>Please only the ones you modified. Just drop the tree over Linus tree and
>your set to go.
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Right, I think I was still confused about the drop-in tree when I sent 
that email.  I'll do it next week.

Pete