From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: In-Reply-To: References: <17136.13558.773102.465379@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <42F79D89.3040709@austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Message-Id: From: Segher Boessenkool Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 15:30:42 +0200 To: Geert Uytterhoeven Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Joel Schopp , linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, Linux/PPC Development Subject: Re: Merging ppc32 and ppc64 List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , >>>> I don't see the merge as changing the actual code that gets executed >>>> on any given platform very much, except in one respect: we are going >>>> to standardize on a flattened device tree as the way that >>>> information >>>> about the platform gets passed from the boot loader to the kernel. > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^***********^^^^^^^^******^ Yes, and that is exactly what I do not want. We are not going to require OF implementations that do not need yaboot or similar to pass a flattened device tree to the kernel, eh? Also, there is no reason why something like yaboot (with an OF still running underneath) should have to care about anything device-tree related at all; the OS can just as easily ask the OF itself. Segher