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On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 04:38:43PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:13:58AM +0800, Geoffrey Lee wrote:
> > The PLEB is a SA-1100-based ARM computer developed at CSE at the
> > University of New South Wales. I have discovered some of the earlier
> > models would not set register 1 properly, which was required for Linux
> > to boot. This was inside their (very old) kernel tree but which they
> > never submitted for inclusion (?) It is a Photon1 with catapult
> > bootloader combination.
>
> I've been killing these - people should really be passing the right
> value of r1 to the kernel. Think what happens when 200 different
> machine types add these 3 lines.
>
I totally agree that it is wrong not to set r1.
Thank goodness that in 2.4.x not many arm boards need this hack :)
Anyway, inside the (very old) pleb kernel tree, it was marked as a "hack".
> A saner solution would be to define this appropriately if we're only
> being built for one platform.
>
Yes. That sounds good.
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