On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 09:38 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > ppc_md.init only exists on ppc32 and seems like its pretty useless > today. The users seem to fall into two classes: > > 1. called to do of_platform_bus_probe() - most platforms use > machine_device_initcall() for this > 2. some platform init code which seems like it could move into > setup_arch(). > > The second one seems to only be on amigaone and chrp. Anyone know if > there is any harm in moving the amigaone_init() into > amigaone_setup_arch() and similarly on chrp chrp_init2() into > chrp_setup_arch().
We might kill it ... and revive it differently :-) Yes, the current ppc_init() can probably just go. However, we probably also want to add a call from init/main.c back to the architectures and ppc_md. in our case that is right after mm_init(). Right now, we do way too many things at setup_arch() (or even before that on ppc64) which induces all sorts of pain due to having to use bootmem etc... Now that slab is available much earlier, before init_IRQ() and time_init(), we should consider moving a whole bunch of stuff somewhere later in the boot process to simplify the code etc... Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
