Re: [patch] linux 2.4.5: Export mips_machtype

[Keith M Wesolowski <wesolows@foobazco.org>]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 07:43:23PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

>  How do you set up mips_machtype on your system in the first place?  At
> kernel_entry the code does not know what machine it's running on anyway,
> so it has to set mips_machtype based on a detection algorithm. 

Of course.  I published a patch and some documentation a long time ago
for doing just this.  I don't think anyone ever even read any of it; I
received no comments.  In any case it's currently used in my tree for
O2 and although I know it could be better it seems to work rather
well.

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