From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <397DA8F8.E68EF85A@francetelecom.fr> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 16:49:29 +0200 From: FASSINO Jean-Philippe MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt CC: linuxppc-dev Subject: Re: RTAS on PowerMac Newworld References: <397D98FA.35AEF244@francetelecom.fr> <20000725144131.11499@mailhost.mipsys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >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. > > Well, they didn't care about it. Note that Macs are far from beeing > embedded boxes ;) Yes, but i'm using embedded term for small system that doing dedicate task and only one (for example firewall, gateway, ... in only 50-100k kernel size). I'm actually experienced that with G4 with 4 network card. JP -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jean-Philippe FASSINO France Telecom R&D : DTL/ASR Tel : 04 76 76 45 52 mailto:jeanphilippe.fassino@francetelecom.fr -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/