From: Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
To: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [EFIKA] Really, don't pretend to be CHRP
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:21:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4808BC7B.6040702@genesi-usa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1208507048.6958.407.camel@pasglop>
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>>> can't set environment variables from within Linux (and yes, we can
>>> probably improve on that too, but we let them setenv for themselves,
>> for
>>> now).
>> You really won't be improving on it because there's no reliable way to
>> pass setenv back to the firmware from userland :D
>
> They aren't in nvram ? If they are and using the standard OF CHRP
> format, then we can.
They aren't (especially on Pegasos) and they aren't, so you can't.
--
Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-18 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-13 16:52 [EFIKA] Really, don't pretend to be CHRP David Woodhouse
2008-04-14 2:54 ` Grant Likely
2008-04-17 12:28 ` Matt Sealey
2008-04-17 14:37 ` David Woodhouse
2008-04-17 15:17 ` Matt Sealey
2008-04-17 16:37 ` David Woodhouse
2008-04-18 15:33 ` Matt Sealey
2008-04-19 0:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-04-18 0:17 ` David Gibson
2008-04-18 8:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-04-18 15:21 ` Matt Sealey [this message]
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