From: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
Cc: Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com>,
linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>, Wolfgang Denx <wd@denx.de>,
Grant Erickson <gerickson@nuovations.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Add Alternative Log Buffer Support for printk Messages
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:17:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa686aa40811251217g6dcbef77u29e3d6ee6ad6d99f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b5e2fc790811251207g38d429f3q4eb698b92162d6@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com> wrote:
>>
>> Matt Sealey wrote:
>>
>> > I can think of a bunch of reasons why it's a good idea..
>>
>> Can you point to a GPL/LGPL/BSD/etc. source code for an OpenFirmware
>> implementation?
>
> Yes, there's FirmWorks, CodeGen SmartFirmware, IBM SLOF and OpenBIOS..
> they're all linked from the OpenBIOS website (along with a bunch of the
> documentation from http://www.openfirmware.org in more-readable formats like
> PDF)
>
> http://www.openbios.org/
>
>
> But here's the real question; why do you need an opensource implementation?
> Curiosity?
Umm, so that it can be ported to new boards perhaps? So that
developers can work with it?
g.
--
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-25 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-25 18:34 [PATCH/RFC] Add Alternative Log Buffer Support for printk Messages Grant Erickson
2008-11-25 18:53 ` Matt Sealey
2008-11-25 18:55 ` Josh Boyer
2008-11-25 19:01 ` Matt Sealey
2008-11-25 19:04 ` Grant Erickson
2008-11-25 19:31 ` Matt Sealey
2008-11-25 19:51 ` Bill Gatliff
2008-11-25 20:07 ` Matt Sealey
2008-11-25 20:17 ` Grant Likely [this message]
2008-11-25 20:46 ` Matt Sealey
2008-11-25 20:19 ` Bill Gatliff
2008-11-25 20:54 ` David VomLehn
2008-11-25 21:45 ` David Brownell
2008-11-26 20:57 ` Matt Sealey
2008-11-25 20:14 ` Grant Likely
2008-11-25 21:05 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-11-26 1:23 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-01-07 0:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-01-07 2:11 ` Grant Erickson
2009-01-07 2:11 ` Grant Erickson
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