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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/16] Add device tree for Ebony
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:40:13 +0100
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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	Yoder Stuart-B08248 <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
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>> Still, if you want to be compatible to "real OF" (and you
>> do, otherwise you would have chosen a structure that is
>> more appropriate for this goal),
>
> We don't require an OF device tree;

When booting on real OF you do.

> what we require is something that
> provides a way to express what the kernel needs to know about the
> hierarchy, interconnections and characteristics of the devices in the
> system.

Sure.  You could have chosen a structure that is closer to the
internal Linux structures.

> That it looks strangely familiar to you is just a
> coincidence. :)

Heh suuuuuuuure :-)


Segher