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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Re: Move of input drivers, some word needed from you
    (No need to group reply, a list reply is fine for me, I have decent
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    On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Jes Sorensen wrote:

    > PPC, just as sbus support applies to sparc, sparc64 and m68k and nubus
    > is for PPC and m68k.

    D'accord. I was unaware of that.

    > Matthias> Why does that belong into drivers/$ARCH? arch/$ARCH/drivers
    > Matthias> is fine, and you can symlink it around if more than one
    > Matthias> architecture shares a certain piece of hardware.
    >
    > Because it needs to be outside the arch hierachy and symlinks are
    > foul.

    Hum. So would not the arch boil down to provide the following:

    * bootstrapping, pulling all necessary information off the
    BIOS/OpenPROM/whatever, passing them on to the Kernel.

    * provide Config.in to the actual hardware drivers

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    Matthias Andree
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