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From: FASSINO Jean-Philippe <jeanphilippe.fassino@francetelecom.fr>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: RTAS on PowerMac Newworld
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 15:41:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <397D98FA.35AEF244@francetelecom.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20000725131626.8292@mailhost.mipsys.com


Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> >
> >Just a question about RTAS on PowerMac G4,
> >does linux kernel can call RTAS function ?
> >And if not, why ?
> >I'm trying to do it and that fail...
>
> RTAS in not correctly implemented in those machines. Apple is apparently
> abandonning it, the implementation in ROM for all core99 machines is
> bogus. What do you want to use RTAS for ?

In the kernel for PPC, a lot a code is here just to do what doing RTAS :
pci config,
via (CUDA and PMU) (no need if no ADB keyboard), ...
When doing embedded systems, this drivers is very big and can be saving by
using
RTAS which i think is a very good thing in  CHRP specification. It's
strange that
apple do not provide it fully.

JP




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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-07-25 13:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-07-25 10:22 RTAS on PowerMac Newworld FASSINO Jean-Philippe
2000-07-25 11:38 ` tom_gall
2000-07-25 11:58   ` Donald Cowart
2000-07-25 12:00     ` tom_gall
2000-07-25 12:00     ` FASSINO Jean-Philippe
2000-07-25 12:08   ` FASSINO Jean-Philippe
2000-07-25 13:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
     [not found] ` <20000725131626.8292@mailhost.mipsys.com>
2000-07-25 13:41   ` FASSINO Jean-Philippe [this message]
2000-07-25 14:03     ` Hollis Blanchard
2000-07-25 14:41     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-07-25 14:49       ` FASSINO Jean-Philippe
2000-07-25 18:37         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-07-26 12:25           ` FASSINO Jean-Philippe

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