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authorRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2000-10-05 01:18:40 +0000
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2000-10-05 01:18:40 +0000
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parent625a1589d3d6464b5d90b8a0918789e3afffd220 (diff)
Merge with Linux 2.4.0-test9. Please check DECstation, I had a number
of rejects to fixup while integrating Linus patches. I also found that this kernel will only boot SMP on Origin; the UP kernel freeze soon after bootup with SCSI timeout messages. I commit this anyway since I found that the last CVS versions had the same problem.
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@@ -52,6 +52,36 @@ Bug reports etc
the problem, what you were doing, etc.
+Include files
+-------------
+
+ Several new include directories have been created under include/asm-arm,
+ which are there to reduce the clutter in the top-level directory. These
+ directories, and their purpose is listed below:
+
+ arch-* machine/platform specific header files
+ hardware driver-internal ARM specific data structures/definitions
+ mach descriptions of generic ARM to specific machine interfaces
+ proc-* processor dependent header files (currently only two
+ categories)
+
+
+Machine/Platform support
+------------------------
+
+ The ARM tree contains support for a lot of different machine types. To
+ continue supporting these differences, it has become necessary to split
+ machine-specific parts by directory. For this, the machine category is
+ used to select which directories and files get included (we will use
+ $(MACHINE) to refer to the category)
+
+ To this end, we now have arch/arm/mach-$(MACHINE) directories which are
+ designed to house the non-driver files for a particular machine (eg, PCI,
+ memory management, architecture definitions etc). For all future
+ machines, there should be a corresponding include/asm-arm/arch-$(MACHINE)
+ directory.
+
+
Modules
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