On Mar 7, 2005, at 4:07 AM, Jakob Viketoft wrote: > Thanks for the comments! > > Andrew May wrote: > > I think a huge first step would be to banish xparameters.h from all > the > > kernel code. > > Our HW guys just seem to do the strangest things without checking. > > So I have 2 spins of a board with 2 Virtex-II pro's each. > > The 2 spins have a small refrence clock change and the 2 CPU's have > > different IRQ mappings. > > I understand that there is numerous resentment against having this file > in the kernel and I've been thinking of a solution without it. One such > path would be serving the kernel with a OCP list of the devices used, > but I'm unsure about the current status of OCP. Is this The Right Way > to > do it, or are OCP likely to be abandoned further along the 2.6 road?
If you are talking about 2.6, dont use OCP. Use the driver model and platform devices. You can take a look at the arch/ppc/syslib/ppc_sys.c and arch/ppc/platforms/85xx for examples. - kumar
