From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.224]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8991EDDE1B for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:08:31 +1000 (EST) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s6so75802wxc.15 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:08:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48E2B16C.6030501@genesi-usa.com> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:08:28 -0500 From: Matt Sealey MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gerald Van Baren Subject: Re: Device Tree References: <48E07490.9020805@enseirb.fr> <48E09108.4020400@ru.mvista.com> <48E2444D.1050301@genesi-usa.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: Matt Sealey Cc: =?UTF-8?B?aHLDqXRpZW4=?= , =?UTF-8?B?U8OpYmFzdGllbiBD?=, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Gerald Van Baren wrote: > Matt Sealey wrote: >> >> The Toshiba TOPAS910 ARM development board also runs Open Firmware and >> contains patches to support OF device trees. >> >> I dare say there might be an x86 box or two out there, too. But they >> have ACPI tables too which is far more common.. > > More than a box or two: lots of OLPC XOs out there now. ;-) > I was thinking more in a platform kind of numbers rather than a sales kind of numbers, but you're right. It's far more common than people might think at first glance. With x86 I am sure it would benefit the platform a little more if the OF support was in-line with the shared code between PPC and SPARC (and now I guess, ARM) but nevertheless it's an Open Firmware platform and something that appeared not too long ago. OF is still a going concern; if you want a nice flexible firmware, why not use it? Most of the implementations are open source (FirmWorks and CodeGen trees, and the Sun reference design) too. -- Matt Sealey Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations