[RFC] Machine-specific modules ala m68k

[Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>]

'lo all.  I was thinking abit about the lack of /etc/modutils/arch/powerpc*,
and thought about how we should fix it.  What I did was as following:
In /sbin/update-modules:
@@ -56,6 +56,20 @@
                        echo "/proc/hardware does not exist, assuming general m68k system"
                fi
        fi
+       if [ $arch = "powerpc" ]; then
+               if [ -f /proc/cpuinfo ]; then
+                       model=`awk '/machine/ {print $3}' /proc/cpuinfo`
+                       case $model in
+                               CHRP*) model=".chrp"; ;;
+                               PReP*) model=".prep"; ;;
+                               Power*|iMac*) model=".pmac"; ;;
+                               *) model=".generic"; ;;
+                       esac
+               else
+                       model=".generic"
+                       echo "/proc/cpuinfo does not exist, assuming generic powerpc system"
+               fi
+       fi
        echo "${arch}${model}"
 }
 
Which adds bits to archmodel() ala what m68k does so that we can have different
files for pmac, prep & chrp.  Other machines which don't fall into this
(ie the various boards in 2_4_devel) should work fine with the .generic file.
8xx machines _should_ be OK as well (serial cannot be a module currently or
probably ever).  In each of the files, i've got an appropriate alias for
what serial should be (since that's the only thing I could think of off the
top of my head).  Comments?  Does this sound good (and I should file a wishlist
bug for it)?  Horribly wrong?

-- 
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/