On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 12:35 -0600, Olof Johansson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 01:36:55PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > I have a somewhat similar patch that does the same to the > > systemcfg->platform checks. I'm not sure if we should use the same inline > > function for both checks, but I do think that they should be used in a > > similar way, e.g. CPU_HAS_FEATURE(x) and PLATFORM_HAS_FEATURE(x). > > Yep. Firmware features are also on the list. I figured I'd do CPU features > first though since they are the ones that started bugging me. > > > The same stuff is obviously possible for cur_cpu_spec->cpu_features as well. > > Do you think that it will help there? > > Nice. It won't be quite as easy to do compile-time for cpu features. > pSeries will need all cpus enabled since we have them all on various > machines, etc. I guess Powermac/Maple could benefit from it. In the > end it depends on how hairy the implementation would get vs performance > improvement.
One other thing we did on ppc32 was to have separate ELF sections for pmac, chrp and prep specific code & get rid of them after boot... It may be worth bringing this back in... Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/