From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from natklopstock.rzone.de (natklopstock.rzone.de [81.169.145.174]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 659CA67BB7 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:50:10 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:49:23 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: Sven Luther Subject: Re: [PATCH] enable RTAS /proc for PowerPC/CHRP platform Message-ID: <20061020074923.GA4943@aepfle.de> References: <1161211083.10524.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061019070318.GA24642@aepfle.de> <1161300942.10524.64.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061020054434.GC3277@aepfle.de> <1161323797.10524.150.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061020062431.GB14390@powerlinux.fr> <20061020064456.GA3946@aepfle.de> <20061020065849.GA17286@powerlinux.fr> <20061020072037.GA4355@aepfle.de> <20061020073745.GC17286@powerlinux.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In-Reply-To: <20061020073745.GC17286@powerlinux.fr> Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Sven Luther , tilmann@bitterberg.de, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, Oct 20, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 09:20:37AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 20, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > Exact, it is not about poluting, but about rationalizing. The fact is that > > > these are the two infos that are the most necessary to userland, then why > > > disseminate the info in thousand different places, instead of making it easily > > > available in a canonical place in a standard format for everyone ? > > > > cpuinfo is about the cpu, not the board layout nor the firmware > > expectations. > > What is the machine: field doing there then ? Would it make sense to provide a > machineinfo then ? All historical bullshit. Use the device-tree.