Re: Microblaze Linux release

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Tue Apr 15 2008 - 17:57:21 EST



On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 15:32 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> I'd recommend splitting prom.c into code that can be shared between powerpc
> and microblaze and architecture specific code. Anything that deals with
> LMB should go into powerpc, and you can simply use the alloc_bootmem
> mechanism for your architecture.

That is non trivial... the unflatten DT code among others relies heavily
on the LMB's to allocate the objects.

We could split the early accessors, unflatten code, and kernel-side
accessors at one point, though we already did most of it no ?

Ben.


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