Re: [Patch] [arm] support older plebs

[Geoffrey Lee <glee@gnupilgrims.org>]

[cc-ing to linux-arm-kernel ]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 04:38:43PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:13:58AM +0800, Geoffrey Lee wrote:
> > The PLEB is a SA-1100-based ARM computer developed at CSE at the
> > University of New South Wales.  I have discovered some of the earlier
> > models would not set register 1 properly, which was required for Linux
> > to boot.  This was inside their (very old) kernel tree but which they 
> > never submitted for inclusion (?)  It is a Photon1 with catapult
> > bootloader combination.
> 
> I've been killing these - people should really be passing the right
> value of r1 to the kernel.  Think what happens when 200 different
> machine types add these 3 lines.
> 

I totally agree that it is wrong not to set r1.


Thank goodness that in 2.4.x not many arm boards need this hack :)

Anyway, inside the (very old) pleb kernel tree, it was marked as a "hack".  

> A saner solution would be to define this appropriately if we're only
> being built for one platform.
> 

Yes.  That sounds good.


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