From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
Cc: hrétien <chretien@enseirb.fr>,
=?UTF-8?B?U8OpYmFzdGllbiBD?=@ozlabs.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Device Tree
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:24:55 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1222831495.12264.2.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48E2B16C.6030501@genesi-usa.com>
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 18:08 -0500, Matt Sealey wrote:
> It's far more common than people might think at first glance. With x86
> I am sure it would benefit the platform a little more if the OF support
> was in-line with the shared code between PPC and SPARC (and now I guess,
> ARM) but nevertheless it's an Open Firmware platform and something that
> appeared not too long ago.
>
> OF is still a going concern; if you want a nice flexible firmware, why
> not use it? Most of the implementations are open source (FirmWorks and
> CodeGen trees, and the Sun reference design) too.
And SLOF :-)
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-01 3:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-29 6:24 Device Tree Sébastien Chrétien
2008-09-29 8:25 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-30 15:22 ` Matt Sealey
2008-09-30 22:30 ` Gerald Van Baren
2008-09-30 23:08 ` Matt Sealey
2008-10-01 3:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2008-10-01 13:09 ` Matt Sealey
2008-10-29 21:04 ` Sébastien Chrétien
2008-09-29 8:25 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-29 8:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-09-09 15:43 Georg Schardt
2008-09-09 17:33 ` Josh Boyer
2008-09-09 18:11 ` John Linn
2008-09-09 18:19 ` Georg Schardt
2008-09-09 18:24 ` John Linn
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