Re: Please pull from 'for_paulus' branch of powerpc

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Thu Jun 29 2006 - 05:13:19 EST



> > Even though other 86xx platforms have no these PCI chips, these
> > codes will not take effect.
>
> Its code bloat for systems that dont need it.

Well... it depends :) If it's totally unlikely to ever have this chip in
those platforms, then yes. But if it's common enough, it's fair to have
the quirk in a generic place (provided that Whang is right and the fixup
is indeed the same for all 86xx platforms)

Ben.


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