On 21 Jul 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > I have nits to pick with a single device_configure(). After we have > something working I will start picking them.
do you mean a single call or a single function? The plan is multiple calls to that function. > In general timer services are a generic part of LinuxBIOS and just like > the console we may need an init routine. We have avoided it many times > in the past by having a static variable and having the timer code magically > do something the very first time it is called. Right. But if the timer is a device in the static tree, and it has a device_configure function, that will get called at some point with a PASS parameter which will tell it to turn on. Greg, you need to fill in the blanks a bit more about the PASS_ stuff. Possibly show your hardwaremain() > Long term I would like to see if we can get the cpus into this structure as > well. But expressing the dependencies is an interesting process. The CPUs are in the static structure almost, as a class of CPU. I assume you want a static struct for each one. Very doable. But it makes more sense to make the instances of CPUs dynamic, and continue with the class as a static initializer. ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
