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Subject: Re: Porting "prep" from ppc to powerpc.
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 09:55 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> I was thinking of writing a bootwrapper that would
> convert residual data to flat device tree. There
> is a lot of valuable information in the residual data,
> like the interrupt routing (which is correct if you 
> can read the spec, which is not what the code in
> arch/ppc did). 

We were wondering the other day how reliable the residual data are...

David Gibson's been toying with that too already, you should sync with
him. 

Cheers,
Ben.