On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 16:17 +0100, Matt Sealey wrote: > > I said the kernel has had braindead patches shoved into it that sort > of > obviate the need for the most heinous of crimes committed in the Efika > device tree. > > The Linux kernel fixups don't add the CDM or XLB arbiter or many other > components some out-of-mainline drivers will need (and should be able > to just access without writing a fixup first) to map to work properly. > Adding these will clean up things like the UART module, Sylvain's > sleep > patches will work on Efika, etc.
What about you guys fix the firmware once for all instead of spamming our mailboxes ? > > can't set environment variables from within Linux (and yes, we can > > probably improve on that too, but we let them setenv for themselves, > for > > now). > > You really won't be improving on it because there's no reliable way to > pass setenv back to the firmware from userland :D They aren't in nvram ? If they are and using the standard OF CHRP format, then we can. Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
