From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <397ED8AB.678FB32E@francetelecom.fr> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:25:15 +0200 From: FASSINO Jean-Philippe MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Geert Uytterhoeven CC: "linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org" Subject: Re: RTAS on PowerMac Newworld References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/