From: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
To: "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] raid6: altivec support
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:54:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <115DD72E-6A2A-11D9-AC28-000393DBC2E8@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1106146083.26551.526.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com>
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=20=
> OF
> > in ppc32.=A0 John Masters was looking into this, but I havent heard=20=
> 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,=20
value pairs
- kumar=
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
To: "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "Paul Mackerras" <paulus@samba.org>,
"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@osdl.org>,
"Jon Masters" <jonathan@jonmasters.org>,
"Olaf Hering" <olh@suse.de>,
"Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
"linuxppc-dev list" <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
"Linux Kernel list" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] raid6: altivec support
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:54:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <115DD72E-6A2A-11D9-AC28-000393DBC2E8@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1106146083.26551.526.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com>
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
- kumar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-19 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200501082324.j08NOIva030415@hera.kernel.org>
2005-01-09 15:13 ` [PATCH] raid6: altivec support Olaf Hering
2005-01-17 10:16 ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-17 10:16 ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-17 14:58 ` Kumar Gala
2005-01-17 14:58 ` Kumar Gala
2005-01-19 4:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-19 4:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-19 7:43 ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-19 7:43 ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-19 9:41 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-01-19 9:41 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-01-20 17:55 ` Tom Rini
2005-01-20 17:55 ` Tom Rini
2005-01-19 14:45 ` Kumar Gala
2005-01-19 14:45 ` Kumar Gala
2005-01-19 14:48 ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-19 14:48 ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-19 14:54 ` Kumar Gala [this message]
2005-01-19 14:54 ` Kumar Gala
2005-01-19 15:08 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-01-19 15:08 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-01-19 15:15 ` Kumar Gala
2005-01-19 15:15 ` Kumar Gala
2005-01-19 15:27 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-01-19 15:27 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-01-19 23:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-19 23:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-20 7:40 ` [Lists-linux-kernel-news] " Jon Masters
2005-01-20 7:40 ` Jon Masters
2005-01-19 18:07 ` Jon Masters
2005-01-19 18:07 ` Jon Masters
2005-01-19 23:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-19 23:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-23 11:17 ` Sven Luther
2005-01-23 11:17 ` Sven Luther
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