Re: Going from 2.2.12 to 2.2.17pre10

On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Adrian Cox wrote:

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

quoted

In the case of Apple HW, the OF device tree is the only way to know about:
[big list of things Apple OF tells you]

Actually, I'm whining about nothing. I just did a search of the drivers
tree, and the only generic PCI device that uses the OF tree is
chipsfb.c. Of course, that's the one I've been porting to a more generic
PCI device driver aimed at the later C&T devices.

As Geert has declared intent to move the FB drivers to PCI probing, this
is a non-issue.

Well, some (control/platinum/valkyrie) will keep on using OF probing since
they're used on PowerMac only. But their initialization routine will no longer
be called by offb.

Prepare to see an (untested, as usual :-) patch for this RSN...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
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