On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > The following patch exports mips_machtype to modules. Please apply.
>
> Ok - but I'd like to burry the whole mips_machtype mechanism in 2.5. To
> messy and requires a central authority to allocate machine types. What
> do you think?
No idea at the moment. For DECs things are pretty easy. The firmware
returns a unique system ID for each different kind of hardware. It can be
used instead (actually mips_machtype is initialized bazed on what firmware
reports). The ID is mostly useful for system-specific stuff, e.g. onboard
devices that cannot be identified or probed in another way.
Note that for PCI-based systems, there is usually no problem -- PCI IDs
can be used instead in most cases.
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