From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4D41DDEE3 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:49:24 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] cell: add support for proper device-tree From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Arnd Bergmann In-Reply-To: <200704240116.58364.arnd@arndb.de> References: <20070423193538.576702568@arndb.de> <20070423193913.253050755@arndb.de> <200704240116.58364.arnd@arndb.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:48:25 +1000 Message-Id: <1177379305.14873.54.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, David Woodhouse , Christian Krafft List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 01:16 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 23 April 2007, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > From: Christian Krafft > > > > This patch adds support for a proper device-tree. > > A porper device-tree on cell contains be nodes > > for each CBE containg nodes for SPEs and all the > > other special devices on it. > > Ofcourse oldschool devicetree is still supported. > > > > Signed-off-by: Christian Krafft > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann > > Christian, I only now saw that there is this rather important > patch left, it never stood out as something for 2.6.21 and now > it's too late for that. > This might explain why people could not boot some hardware > with Fedora 7. > > Should we try to get this in as a hotfix? Please do. Ben.