From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3C9982AD.5030502@embeddededge.com> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 01:50:21 -0500 From: Dan Malek MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Murray Jensen Cc: linux-galileo@source.mvista.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: EV-64260-BP & GT64260 bi_recs References: <22654.1016673065@msa.cmst.csiro.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Murray Jensen wrote: > I like this idea (a lot), but I'm not sure you were serious. I'm always serious :-). > .... The problem with > this method starts when you have a lot of information to pass I'm going to (constantly :-) argue that if you are passing lots of information then something isn't designed correctly. It's one thing to be passing a few hardware hints or small configuration values, but I think it's quite wrong to design a bunch of dynamic software that requires a small data base to be passed into to the kernel. Please don't be confused by this comment and start aruging OF device trees on Macs. The OF tree is really just a bunch of small configuration items that allows lots of generic software to run on a variety of Mac platforms. -- Dan ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/