[PATCH 2/3] ARM: iop32x: improve N2100 PCI broken parity quirk
Russell King - ARM Linux admin
linux at armlinux.org.uk
Tue Jan 5 19:52:58 EST 2021
On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 01:44:03AM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> The machine type check is there to protect from (theoretical) cases
> where the n2100 code (incl. the RTL8169 quirk) may be compiled in,
> but the kernel is used on another machine.
That is far from a theoretical case. The ARM port has always supported
multiple machines in a single kernel. They just had to be "compatible"
in other words, the same SoC. All the platforms supported by
arch/arm/mach-iop32x can be built as a single kernel image and run on
any of those platforms.
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