On Jan 19, 2005, at 8:48 AM, David Woodhouse wrote:
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 08:45 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> We did talk about looking at using some work Ben did in ppc64 with OF
> in ppc32. John Masters was looking into this, but I havent heard much
> from him on it lately.
>
> The firmware interface on the ppc32 embedded side is some what broken
> in my mind.
The binary structure which changes every few weeks and which is shared between the bootloader and the kernel? Yeah, "somewhat broken" is one way of putting it :)
The ARM kernel does it a lot better with tag,value pairs.
The funny thing is that one of the variants on ppc32 supports tag, value pairs
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