Re: SPARC64: Modular floppy?

[Randy.Dunlap]

Horst von Brand wrote:
> "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>
> > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:07:43 -0300
> > Horst von Brand <vonbrand@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> [...]
>
>
> > > So, either the dependencies have to get fixed so floppy can't be modular
> > > for this architecture, or the relevant functions have to move from entry.S
> > > to the module.
>
>
> > I think the former is the best solution.  The assembler code really
> > needs to get at floppy.c symbols.
>
>
> > From my cursory look the stuff depending on the floppy.c symbols is just
> in the floppy-related code. Can't that be just included in floppy.c?
> (Could be quite a mess, but it looks like short stretches).

The code in entry.S looks self-contained (to me:), so moving it
somewhere else should just be a SMOP (mostly kbuild stuff)....

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~Randy
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