Code review request: boards on AT91

[Rafał Jaworowski]

On 2008-11-25, at 22:57, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:

> Rafał Jaworowski wrote:
>> On 2008-11-25, at 18:44, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>>
>>
>>> If anybody wants me to write up where I'm going with this, or answer
>>> any question, please feel free to ask.  Also, comments would be  
>>> nice.
>>
>> I was dreaming once about all-generic initarm() that would have  
>> KOBJ-based dispatcher, but am not sure this wouldn't cause some  
>> chicken-and-egg issues as some parts of the infrastructure might  
>> not be available at such early stages, but didn't investigate this  
>> too close, any thoughts? But anyways, even a simple scheme with  
>> common logic and function ptrs, which each platform variation would  
>> implement their own routines (or use generic), would improve the  
>> ARM init code significantly.
> I am about to commit a patch in order to provide Open Firmware  
> modularization using KOBJ (coincidentally, this should make  
> supporting FDTs much easier). In order to this, I had to make KOBJ  
> behave itself when invoked almost at the very beginning of the boot  
> process on both PowerPC and SPARC, so you shouldn't have any trouble  
> putting this in very early boot on ARM either once this hits the tree.

Oh, very interesting news, thanks a lot -- I'll definitely look at  
your code.

Rafal