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-rw-r--r--arch/ia64/kernel/machvec.c19
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/machvec.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/machvec.c
index c3a04ee7f4f6..4b0b71d5aef4 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/machvec.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/machvec.c
@@ -14,7 +14,15 @@
struct ia64_machine_vector ia64_mv;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(ia64_mv);
-static struct ia64_machine_vector *
+static __initdata const char *mvec_name;
+static __init int setup_mvec(char *s)
+{
+ mvec_name = s;
+ return 0;
+}
+early_param("machvec", setup_mvec);
+
+static struct ia64_machine_vector * __init
lookup_machvec (const char *name)
{
extern struct ia64_machine_vector machvec_start[];
@@ -33,10 +41,13 @@ machvec_init (const char *name)
{
struct ia64_machine_vector *mv;
+ if (!name)
+ name = mvec_name ? mvec_name : acpi_get_sysname();
mv = lookup_machvec(name);
- if (!mv) {
- panic("generic kernel failed to find machine vector for platform %s!", name);
- }
+ if (!mv)
+ panic("generic kernel failed to find machine vector for"
+ " platform %s!", name);
+
ia64_mv = *mv;
printk(KERN_INFO "booting generic kernel on platform %s\n", name);
}