On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 14:48 +0000, 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.
And ppc64 adds a flattened device-tree format, even better imho :) Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
