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Message-ID: <Pine.BSM.4.64L.1201271632120.25139@herc.mirbsd.org>
Date:	Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:34:24 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Thorsten Glaser <tg@...ian.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	Debian kernel team <debian-kernel@...ts.debian.org>,
	linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org, debian-68k@...ts.debian.org,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/2] cpu: Do not return errors from cpu_dev_init()
 which will be ignored; [PATCHv2 2/2] cpu: Register a generic CPU device on
 architectures that currently do not

Ben Hutchings dixit:

>cpu_dev_init() is only called from driver_init(), which does not check
[…]

= and =

>frv, h8300, m68k, microblaze, openrisc, score, um and xtensa currently
>do not register a CPU device.  Add the config option
>GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES which causes a generic CPU device to be registered
[…]

Now that these are in the Debian Linux kernel package and a build has
been done, I can confirm the result boots on ARAnyM (m68k).

Tested-by: Thorsten Glaser <tg@...ian.org>

bye,
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