Re: [RFC] Multiboot2 drafting

2010-05-14 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <4becee31.3060...@gmail.com> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko writes: : 2) Keep the things as advanced as they need to but not more advanced. : E.g. when you supply an info about serial port you tell: it's at I/O : port N rather than: it's in PCI bar X of device Y offs

Re: [RFC] Multiboot2 drafting

2010-05-14 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <4becee31.3060...@gmail.com> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko writes: : Yes and No. multiboot2 describes some aspects of the host system : hardware but I've never heard of device trees outside of IEEE1275 or : xnu, where it's probably a historical leftover. It is far

Re: [RFC] Multiboot2 drafting

2010-05-14 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <20100514132142.252b0...@ernst.jennejohn.org> Gary Jennejohn writes: : As an example of what I think Andrew was addressing, U-Boot can pass a : Flattened Device Tree to the Linux kernel. This basically allows a : Linux kernel to handle variants of a board without having to