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 ESMTPS id 4F33BDDE0D for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2008 13:46:39 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: Device Tree From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Matt Sealey In-Reply-To: <48E2B16C.6030501@genesi-usa.com> References: <48E07490.9020805@enseirb.fr> <48E09108.4020400@ru.mvista.com> <48E2444D.1050301@genesi-usa.com> <48E2B16C.6030501@genesi-usa.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:24:55 +1000 Message-Id: <1222831495.12264.2.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?hr=E9tien?= , =?UTF-8?B?U8OpYmFzdGllbiBD?=@ozlabs.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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.