From: FASSINO Jean-Philippe <jeanphilippe.fassino@francetelecom.fr>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: "linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: RTAS on PowerMac Newworld
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:25:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <397ED8AB.678FB32E@francetelecom.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.10.10007252036280.1490-100000@cassiopeia.home
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, FASSINO Jean-Philippe wrote:
> > 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.
>
> And what's the smallest amount of memory you can put in a G4? I guess it's an
> order of magnitude larger than a kernel containing all possible drivers :-)
Sure, but G4 is just a good computer for experimentation !
JP
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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
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 [this message]
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