????: coherent_ht_mainboard()

Stefan Reinauer stepan at suse.de
Wed Mar 24 13:24:01 CET 2004


* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederman at lnxi.com> [040324 19:48]:
> hypertransport.c can become a noop I agree but there are systems like:
> http://www.970eval.com/ where we will need it for the ppc.  And there
> may be other even more interesting cases.
> 
> So I continue to see hypertansport.c as normative.  The rest of the
> places as just optimizations.  Though I am completely in favor of
> increasing the code sharing between hypertransport.c and
> incoherent_ht.c
  
I think you mean coherent_ht.c and incoherent_ht.c? hypertransport.c is
only available for tyan boards and contains the hardcodes for link setup
on those tyan boards. coherent_ht.c and incoherent_ht.c are both needed
and more than unlikely to go away, i agree.
Correct me if I misunderstood.

Stefan
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  Stefan Reinauer, SUSE LINUX AG
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