Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 06 Feb 2001 13:52:36 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.2-pre1 |
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Tom Rini wrote: > Er, what exactly is the CONFIG_PREP stuff in this driver supposed to be > for? "CONFIG_PREP" doesn't exist anymore to start with, and secondly I'm > not sure if any PReP boxes ever shipped with a riva card to start with. The > only real way to handle this in 2.4 is something like: > #ifdef CONFIG_ALL_PPC /* CHRP/PMAC/PREP */ > #include <asm/processor.h> > #define isPReP (_machine == _MACH_prep) > #else > #define isPReP 0 > #endif > > That is, if there's really any need to test explicitly for a PReP box. > I asked Ani Joshi about this a while ago, and he wasn't quite sure why they > were in there either..
It looks like it might have come from drivers/video/clgenfb.c, perhaps for use with big endian framebuffers?
If the driver works on PPC without CONFIG_PREP code, let's get rid of it.
Jeff
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