linux-kernel - Re: m68k: could the Apollo support possibly work?

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806090842490.25145@anakin>
Date:	Mon, 9 Jun 2008 08:44:33 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, Peter De Schrijver <p2@...ian.org>
cc:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>, linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: m68k: could the Apollo support possibly work?

On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Nothing seems to set apollo_model (apollo_parse_bootinfo() has no caller).
> 
> Therefore trying to boot an Apollo machine seems to do:
>   arch/m68k/kernel/setup.c:setup_arch()
>     arch/m68k/apollo/config.c:config_apollo()
>       arch/m68k/apollo/config.c:dn_setup_model() 
>         panic()
> 
> Do I miss anything?

Obviously it should be called from m68k_parse_bootinfo(), but there's no
MACH_IS_APOLLO case there. Strange...

> Does anyone still have this hardware and tried booting it in recent years?
> 
> This problem already exists in kernel 2.4.0, and my gut feeling is 
> it's quite dead code I could remove.

P2?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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