[PARISC] Document history of PDC_NARROW as it is now obsolete

Document history of PDC_NARROW a bit as it will still show
up in an older kernel's .config file.

Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>

diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/firmware.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/firmware.c
index f244fb200db1f3dc574a295e5e71912b3df9b27e..553f8fe03224f31a03d278b95fd5e9eefe13ebd0 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/firmware.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/firmware.c
@@ -83,15 +83,15 @@ static unsigned long pdc_result2[32] __attribute__ ((aligned (8)));
 int parisc_narrow_firmware = 1;
 #endif
 
-/* on all currently-supported platforms, IODC I/O calls are always
- * 32-bit calls, and MEM_PDC calls are always the same width as the OS.
- * This means Cxxx boxes can't run wide kernels right now. -PB
+/* On most currently-supported platforms, IODC I/O calls are 32-bit calls
+ * and MEM_PDC calls are always the same width as the OS.
+ * Some PAT boxes may have 64-bit IODC I/O.
  *
- * CONFIG_PDC_NARROW has been added to allow 64-bit kernels to run on
- * systems with 32-bit MEM_PDC calls. This will allow wide kernels to
- * run on Cxxx boxes now. -RB
- *
- * Note that some PAT boxes may have 64-bit IODC I/O...
+ * Ryan Bradetich added the now obsolete CONFIG_PDC_NARROW to allow
+ * 64-bit kernels to run on systems with 32-bit MEM_PDC calls.
+ * This allowed wide kernels to run on Cxxx boxes.
+ * We now detect 32-bit-only PDC and dynamically switch to 32-bit mode
+ * when running a 64-bit kernel on such boxes (e.g. C200 or C360).
  */
 
 #ifdef __LP64__