From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Make more OF-related bootwrapper functions available to non-OF platforms
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:44:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a4f3b70262861ea3823491ef61dffac0@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070627065458.60C5ADDF2B@ozlabs.org>
> Commit 2e6016133755eb3cc44e8efab92573d23ed75888 split up
> arch/powerpc/boot/of.c so that some OF functions can be used on
> platforms that don't want to use the overall OF platform boot code.
> This is useful on things like PReP which can have an OF implementation
> which is useful for debugging output, but inadequate for booting.
>
> However, that commit didn't export quite enough things to make a
> usable OF console on a non-OF system. In particular, the device tree
> manipulation performed to initialize the OF console code must
> explicitly use the OF device tree, rather than the flattened device
> tree, even if the system is otherwise booting using a flattened device
> tree. This patch makes it so.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Looks good to me, I assume you tested it? You didn't
mention on what hardware...
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-28 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-27 6:53 [PATCH 0/3] PReP support David Gibson
2007-06-27 6:54 ` [PATCH 1/3] Abolish unused ucBoardRev variables David Gibson
2007-06-27 6:54 ` [PATCH 2/3] Make more OF-related bootwrapper functions available to non-OF platforms David Gibson
2007-06-28 8:44 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2007-06-27 7:10 ` [PATCH 3/3] First cut at PReP support for arch/powerpc David Gibson
2007-06-27 11:22 ` Milton Miller
2007-06-27 11:29 ` udbg_16550.c and legacy_serial.c Milton Miller
2007-06-28 0:38 ` [PATCH 3/3] First cut at PReP support for arch/powerpc David Gibson
2007-06-28 8:59 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-28 10:00 ` Gabriel Paubert
2007-07-02 11:51 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-07-03 9:51 ` Gabriel Paubert
2007-07-03 12:49 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-07-03 2:26 ` Tom Gall
2007-07-03 6:50 ` Ulrich Teichert
2007-08-03 6:35 ` David Gibson
2007-08-03 15:24 ` Jon Loeliger
2007-08-06 19:43 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-06 19:42 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-07-18 1:31 ` David Gibson
2007-07-18 15:55 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-03 6:43 ` David Gibson
2007-08-06 19:37 ` Segher Boessenkool
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