From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from canuck.infradead.org (canuck.infradead.org [205.233.218.70]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E433767A2C for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 01:48:39 +1100 (EST) From: David Woodhouse To: Kumar Gala In-Reply-To: References: <1106120622.10851.42.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:48:03 +0000 Message-Id: <1106146083.26551.526.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: Linux Kernel list , linuxppc-dev list , Linus Torvalds , Paul Mackerras , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] raid6: altivec support List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 08:45 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote: > We did talk about looking at using some work Ben did in ppc64 with OF > in ppc32. John Masters was looking into this, but I havent heard much > from him on it lately. > > The firmware interface on the ppc32 embedded side is some what broken > in my mind. The binary structure which changes every few weeks and which is shared between the bootloader and the kernel? Yeah, "somewhat broken" is one way of putting it :) The ARM kernel does it a lot better with tag,value pairs. -- dwmw2