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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Kill machine numbers
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:23:32 +0100
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> One thing I have been wondering about is what should be the right way
> to check whether we're running on something based on the
> Cell Broadband Engine Architecture, if that is needed somewhere.
> My original idea was to make this the platform number, but this
> seems impractical now.

Just check the PVR?  Either directly, or in the device tree.
It's not likely that there will be a million different CBEA
compliant CPUs any time soon ;-)

There really should be some other OF property in the CPU nodes
that tells us the CPU is CBEA, but I don't think we have one
right now :-(


Segher

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