Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:20:03 -0500 | From | Robin Holt <> | Subject | Re: Altix I/O code re-org |
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On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 01:57:53PM -0400, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Thursday, July 22, 2004 11:14 am, Pat Gefre wrote: > > We have redone the I/O layer in the Altix code. > > > > We are posting this code for review before submitting for > > inclusion in the 2.5 tree. > > > > The code can be seen at: > > ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/sn2/sn2-update/ > > > > The general changes are: > > o added new hardware support > > o ran all code thru Lindent > > o code cleanup (typedefs, include files, etc.) > > o simplified the directory structure (all files under arch/ia64/sn/io/ > > are deleted, new files are under arch/ia64/sn/ioif/) > > o code size reduced by >50% > > o major reorg of the code itself > > o copyright updates > > One of the most important changes this patch makes is to rip out all of the > SGI PCI probing code. Our PROM now probes for I/O devices and tells the > kernel where they are (similar to the ACPI model, which we may get to > eventually). The result is much more readable code with less duplication. > Please take a look and let us know if you have any feedback, since we'd like > to get this in as soon as we release a PROM that supports probing.
I am in the process of making this into four patches that will leave me with a bootable system. I need to test out the bte error handling code anyway.
The first patch will handle renaming the files, second and third are the diffs_common* and then the fourth replaces the is the big patch. I realize this doesn't satisfy Christoph's request, but it is a first step.
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