From: Doug Maxey <dwm@maxeymade.com>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: OFW node names
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:31:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060619233155.361570@bebe.enoyolf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41C6BB03-59B9-4954-815B-7750B0996AB9@kernel.crashing.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-19 23:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-19 17:19 OFW node names Doug Maxey
2006-06-19 22:11 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-06-19 23:31 ` Doug Maxey [this message]
2006-06-20 0:00 ` Segher Boessenkool
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