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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 11/13] cell: split out board specific files
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 01:38:56 +0200
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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>> Is there any reason the driver wouldn't build and/or run on other
>> platforms?  If so, fix it.  If not, just make it
>>
>>         depends on PCI
>
> Well, it could run on other platforms, except:
>
> - it requires a few properties in the device tree (local-mac-address,
>   firmware), so it should also depend on PPC

The portions of code that require OF should have appropriate #ifdef  
guards.

> - It's not actually PCI at all, but on an internal bus that has
>   something close enough to a PCI config space.

Our emulation should be good enough; if not, holler (off-list).


Segher

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