Re: [PATCHv6 00/16] boot order specification

Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-11-28T17:03:21Z

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 01:22:42PM +0000, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 03:13:52PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 09:54:04AM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >> > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:56:10PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >> > > On 11/23/2010 06:12 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >> > > >On 11/23/2010 09:31 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >> > > >>Anthony, Blue
> >> > > >>
> >> > > >>No comments on this patch series for almost a week. Can it be applied?
> >> > > >
> >> > > >Does that mean everyone's happy or have folks not gotten around to
> >> > > >review it?
> >> > > >
> >> > > >IOW, last call if you have objections :-)
> >> > > >
> >> > >
> >> > > I haven't reviewed this - I trust the author and maintainers to get
> >> > > it right.
> >> > >
> >> > > But I notice the there is no documentation - surely some is needed?
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > The patch creates Openfirmware device path from qdev
> >> > hierarchy. Each element of a device path depends on type of a bus
> >> > the device resides on. You can find various bus bindings here:
> >> > http://playground.sun.com/1275/bindings/ and main spec is here
> >>
> >> sun.com links have a tendency to disappear nowdays :)
> >> Is this the official location?  Aren't bindings part of some standard?
> > I think this is official location.
>
> I'd suppose some of them are IEEE standards, available for a fee.

I don't think so:
The IEEE-1275 Open Firmware standard was not reaffirmed by the OFWG and
has been officially withdrawn by IEEE. Unfortunately, this means it is
unavailable from the IEEE.
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