Re: CONFIG_ALL_PPC

2 messages, 1 author, 2001-12-03 · open the first message on its own page

Re: CONFIG_ALL_PPC

From: Olaf Hering <hidden>
Date: 2001-11-29 00:19:41

On Thu, Nov 29, Paul Mackeras wrote:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
quoted
It's a difficult choice ;)

What about CONFIG_COMMON_PPC ? Still a bit misleading, but probably
better than CONFIG_ALL_PPC...
You know, what I am really tempted to do is to split out prep again
and have a CONFIG_PPC_OPENFIRMWARE to indicate pmac and chrp and
anything else that has a working OF.  But Olaf would kill me... :)
Hmm, why? :)



Gruss Olaf

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Re: CONFIG_ALL_PPC

From: Olaf Hering <hidden>
Date: 2001-12-03 11:45:59

On Thu, Nov 29, Olaf Hering wrote:
On Thu, Nov 29, Paul Mackeras wrote:
quoted
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
quoted
It's a difficult choice ;)

What about CONFIG_COMMON_PPC ? Still a bit misleading, but probably
better than CONFIG_ALL_PPC...
You know, what I am really tempted to do is to split out prep again
and have a CONFIG_PPC_OPENFIRMWARE to indicate pmac and chrp and
anything else that has a working OF.  But Olaf would kill me... :)
Hmm, why? :)
Ok, got that.
Is it worth the trouble?

banana:/usr/src/linux # l arch/ppc/kernel/*prep*o drivers/video/*vga*o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3172 Dec  3 11:32 arch/ppc/kernel/prep_nvram.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        17108 Dec  3 11:32 arch/ppc/kernel/prep_pci.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        16412 Dec  3 11:32 arch/ppc/kernel/prep_setup.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         7188 Dec  3 11:32 arch/ppc/kernel/prep_time.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        29084 Dec  3 11:17 drivers/video/vgacon.o

70kb uncompressed code.


Gruss Olaf

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