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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH,RFC] Split out common parts of prom.h
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:19:13 +0200
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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> Should we drop prom.h all together.

That presumably is the final goal.  It'll take a
while to get there, though, and in the meantime
prom.h is there for backward compatibility.

> I haven't looked but I would
> think OLPC would need (or use) some of this as well since its using OF.

The OLPC kernel currently doesn't use OF; it guesses
a lot instead, just like on any other x86 machine.
This can change though, but it's not a priority for
the OLPC project right now (since things "work" anyway).


Segher