From: FASSINO Jean-Philippe <jeanphilippe.fassino@francetelecom.fr>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: RTAS on PowerMac Newworld
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 16:49:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <397DA8F8.E68EF85A@francetelecom.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20000725144131.11499@mailhost.mipsys.com
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >In the kernel for PPC, a lot a code is here just to do what doing RTAS :
> >pci config,
> >via (CUDA and PMU) (no need if no ADB keyboard), ...
> >When doing embedded systems, this drivers is very big and can be saving by
> >using
> >RTAS which i think is a very good thing in CHRP specification. It's
> >strange that
> >apple do not provide it fully.
>
> Well, they didn't care about it. Note that Macs are far from beeing
> embedded boxes ;)
Yes, but i'm using embedded term for small system that doing dedicate task
and only one (for example firewall, gateway, ... in only 50-100k kernel size).
I'm actually experienced that with G4 with 4 network card.
JP
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-07-25 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-25 10:22 RTAS on PowerMac Newworld FASSINO Jean-Philippe
2000-07-25 11:38 ` tom_gall
2000-07-25 11:58 ` Donald Cowart
2000-07-25 12:00 ` tom_gall
2000-07-25 12:00 ` FASSINO Jean-Philippe
2000-07-25 12:08 ` FASSINO Jean-Philippe
2000-07-25 13:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
[not found] ` <20000725131626.8292@mailhost.mipsys.com>
2000-07-25 13:41 ` FASSINO Jean-Philippe
2000-07-25 14:03 ` Hollis Blanchard
2000-07-25 14:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-07-25 14:49 ` FASSINO Jean-Philippe [this message]
2000-07-25 18:37 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-07-26 12:25 ` FASSINO Jean-Philippe
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