On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 19:05 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > Tony, you should NAK Ben tomorrow after lunch if you know what I > mean :)
Should I hide ? :-) > > You must NEVER manipulate kernel globals from prom_init.c. The fact > that > > prom_init is linked with the kernel is an "accident" which may > change. > > A very long running accident, we should really look at fixing it some > time. Patch welcome :-) Historically, it used to manipulate some kernel data structures, but we fixed all of that when we introduced the flat DT model. > > Your scheme would break among others with kexec or non-OF > bootloaders > > I talked to Tony about it this morning and we came up with a scheme > that > should work for all cases. Excellent. Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
