From: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Subject: Re: Porting "prep" from ppc to powerpc.
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 10:46:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070528084652.GA7686@iram.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1180340614.19517.68.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 06:23:34PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 09:55 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> > I was thinking of writing a bootwrapper that would
> > convert residual data to flat device tree. There
> > is a lot of valuable information in the residual data,
> > like the interrupt routing (which is correct if you
> > can read the spec, which is not what the code in
> > arch/ppc did).
>
> We were wondering the other day how reliable the residual data are...
>
On the boards I use, they are very good. And there is some information
(memory size, tb and cpu freq, etc...) that I'd rather take from the
residual data than trying to guess.
> David Gibson's been toying with that too already, you should sync with
> him.
I've not yet started to write anything (finishing a hardware project).
Regards,
Gabriel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-28 8:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-26 2:38 Porting "prep" from ppc to powerpc Rob Landley
2007-05-27 23:20 ` David Gibson
2007-05-29 21:16 ` Rob Landley
2007-05-28 7:55 ` Gabriel Paubert
2007-05-28 8:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-28 8:46 ` Gabriel Paubert [this message]
2007-05-28 9:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-29 21:02 ` Rob Landley
2007-05-30 11:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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