From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Mikrotik RouterBoard 333
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:17:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ca5bd814ebc5d76508d40503f4884db@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080708042631.GB7328@yookeroo.seuss>
> Its firmware apparently provides a flattened device tree to the OS.
> And while this step towards world domination is flattering, it's an
> example of what I feared when people first got enthusiastic about the
> idea of including flattened device trees in firmwares. The tree has
> not, AFAIK, been past this list, and has apparently not been reviewed
> by someone knowledgeable about device trees. In short, it's crap, and
> now that it's embedded in the firware we can't really fix it.
Can't you build a kernel with a blob that overrides the
firmware-provided
blob?
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-15 0:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-08 4:26 Mikrotik RouterBoard 333 David Gibson
2008-07-09 4:09 ` Grant Likely
2008-07-14 0:44 ` Jerry Van Baren
2008-07-21 21:13 ` Scott Wood
2008-07-21 22:13 ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-07-22 2:54 ` Jerry Van Baren
2008-07-22 3:48 ` David Gibson
2008-07-22 14:56 ` Scott Wood
2008-07-15 0:17 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2008-07-15 1:41 ` David Gibson
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