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authorNathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>2008-07-16 09:58:51 +1000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2008-07-25 15:44:39 +1000
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powerpc: Enable AT_BASE_PLATFORM aux vector
Stash the first platform string matched by identify_cpu() in powerpc_base_platform, and supply that to the ELF loader for the value of AT_BASE_PLATFORM. Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c
index b936a1d..25a052c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@
struct cpu_spec* cur_cpu_spec = NULL;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(cur_cpu_spec);
+/* The platform string corresponding to the real PVR */
+const char *powerpc_base_platform;
+
/* NOTE:
* Unlike ppc32, ppc64 will only call this once for the boot CPU, it's
* the responsibility of the appropriate CPU save/restore functions to
@@ -1652,6 +1655,14 @@ struct cpu_spec * __init identify_cpu(unsigned long offset, unsigned int pvr)
} else
*t = *s;
*PTRRELOC(&cur_cpu_spec) = &the_cpu_spec;
+
+ /*
+ * Set the base platform string once; assumes
+ * we're called with real pvr first.
+ */
+ if (powerpc_base_platform == NULL)
+ powerpc_base_platform = t->platform;
+
#if defined(CONFIG_PPC64) || defined(CONFIG_BOOKE)
/* ppc64 and booke expect identify_cpu to also call
* setup_cpu for that processor. I will consolidate