Messages in this thread | | | From | Grant Likely <> | Date | Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:21:42 -0700 | Subject | Re: [RFC] arm: Defer lookup of machine_type and vet of atags to setup.c |
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On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Grant Likely wrote: > >> Since the debug macros no longer depend on the machine type >> information, both the machine type lookup and the atags vetting can be >> deferred to setup_arch() in setup.c which simplifies the code >> somewhat. >> >> This patch removes both __machine_type_lookup and __vet_atags() from >> head.S. The atags vetting is moved to setup_arch(). machine_type >> lookup is already called from setup_machine() in addition to where it >> was called from head.S. > > While at it, you could also remove the code for __lookup_machine_type, > lookup_machine_type and __error_a, replacing that with a C > implementation living in setup.c instead. If this code is not called > from head.S anymore, there is no reason to keep it there any longer.
Certainly. I'll draft that up as a separate patch and post it tomorrow.
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