Re: [XenPPC] Should the platform name be Xen-Maple

2007-02-28 Thread Jimi Xenidis
ok, I am confused, and not sure I care until I see the patch that fives the result you want. -JX On Feb 27, 2007, at 5:19 PM, Hollis Blanchard wrote: platform is build-time and comes from define_machine(). That should be Xen. machine we can display ourselves via ppc_md.show_cpuinfo(). We

[XenPPC] Should the platform name be Xen-Maple

2007-02-27 Thread Jerone Young
In /proc/cpuinfo of a domain0 you see the following: processor : 0 cpu : PPC970MP, altivec supported clock : 2300.00MHz revision: 1.1 (pvr 0044 0101) processor : 1 cpu : PPC970MP, altivec supported clock : 2300.00MHz

Re: [XenPPC] Should the platform name be Xen-Maple

2007-02-27 Thread Hollis Blanchard
Jimi, the context is that we need to modify Fedora's installer so that it properly detects the system it's running on. That means we're implementing a user-visible interface right now. I think Xen-Maple is a terrible name to permanently commit ourselves to. Let's not. PPC's cpuinfo seems to have

Re: [XenPPC] Should the platform name be Xen-Maple

2007-02-27 Thread Jerone Young
Ok. But there is another thing I left out. Under global firmware you normally have a line machine: in /proc/cpuinfo that shows the machine platform you are running on. In case of the JS20s this looks like: machine : CHRP IBM,8842-21X On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 14:56 -0500, Jimi Xenidis

Re: [XenPPC] Should the platform name be Xen-Maple

2007-02-27 Thread Jimi Xenidis
I agree, but in our current Kernel source the string in question comes from the machine description. Am I missing something? -Jx On Feb 27, 2007, at 3:43 PM, Hollis Blanchard wrote: Jimi, the context is that we need to modify Fedora's installer so that it properly detects the system it's

Re: [XenPPC] Should the platform name be Xen-Maple

2007-02-27 Thread Hollis Blanchard
platform is build-time and comes from define_machine(). That should be Xen. machine we can display ourselves via ppc_md.show_cpuinfo(). We can get that from the device tree, just like CHRP does. On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 16:55 -0500, Jimi Xenidis wrote: I agree, but in our current Kernel source the