linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] OLPC: only check for OFW signature on VSA-less Geodes

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Message-Id: <1208812671.7385.7.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:17:51 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>
Cc:	Mitch Bradley <wmb@...mworks.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Joseph Fannin <jfannin@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jordan.crouse@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] OLPC: only check for OFW signature on VSA-less Geodes

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 17:02 -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> The OFW sig check requires an ioremap that is dangerous on non-OLPC
> systems.  Long term, we should be getting the signature from the
> device tree (/openprom/model), but for right now just limit the
> check to only run on a subset of Geode (GX2/LX) systems.

That looks saner to me for now.

Acked-By: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>

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dwmw2

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