OFW node names

OFW node names

[Doug Maxey]

Howdy!

I'm looking at page 164 in the 1275-1994 at the "name" entry.

Does any platform known to use yaboot (or grub for that matter) use the
preferred encoding of the manufacturer portion of the name property?
How about the "ONNNNN" OUI from the RAC, or the uppercase VWXYZ company stock symbol?

My view has been limited to the IBM platform.  According to the 
examples, this is a recommended practice.  I know IBM uses the 
lowercase variant.

If anyone has an example, please point me at tarball of the device tree.

++doug

Re: OFW node names

[Segher Boessenkool]

> Does any platform known to use yaboot (or grub for that matter) use  
> the
> preferred encoding of the manufacturer portion of the name property?
> How about the "ONNNNN" OUI from the RAC, or the uppercase VWXYZ  
> company stock symbol?

Apple sometimes uses AAPL.  Never seen the ONNNNNN thing.

> My view has been limited to the IBM platform.  According to the
> examples, this is a recommended practice.  I know IBM uses the
> lowercase variant.

Which _is_ allowed, although discouraged.


Segher

Re: OFW node names

[Doug Maxey]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:11:55 +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > Does any platform known to use yaboot (or grub for that matter) use  
> > the
> > preferred encoding of the manufacturer portion of the name property?
> > How about the "ONNNNN" OUI from the RAC, or the uppercase VWXYZ  
> > company stock symbol?
> 
> Apple sometimes uses AAPL.  Never seen the ONNNNNN thing.

matches the US stock symbol, goodness.

> 
> > My view has been limited to the IBM platform.  According to the
> > examples, this is a recommended practice.  I know IBM uses the
> > lowercase variant.
> 
> Which _is_ allowed, although discouraged.

Ok, but who enforces it?  Vendor polices themselves?  Right. :->  

Thanks!

++doug

Re: OFW node names

[Segher Boessenkool]

>> Apple sometimes uses AAPL.  Never seen the ONNNNNN thing.
>
> matches the US stock symbol, goodness.

Yeah.  Wow.  They also use "aapl", of course -- or nothing
at all.  Or "apl" in at least one case.

>>> My view has been limited to the IBM platform.  According to the
>>> examples, this is a recommended practice.  I know IBM uses the
>>> lowercase variant.
>>
>> Which _is_ allowed, although discouraged.
>
> Ok, but who enforces it?  Vendor polices themselves?  Right. :->

If there is a comma, the part before the first comma is supposed
to be a vendor identifier.  The actual format of that is allowed
to be basically anything, even by the OF standard itself.  The
less ambiguous formats are encouraged though...


Segher