From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: segher@kernel.crashing.org, hch@infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@laptop.org, dmk@flex.com,
wmb@firmworks.com, jg@laptop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:09:14 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1167714554.6165.56.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070101.210108.41636312.davem@davemloft.net>
On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 21:01 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:57:05 +1100
>
> > I like being able to have a simple way (ie. tar /proc/device-tree) to
> > tell user to send me their DT and have in the end an exact binary
> > representation so I can actually dig for problems, like a wrong phandle
> > in an interrupt-map or stuff like that...
>
> "prtconf -pv" is what I'd ask the user to do on Sparc, or something
> similar.
>
> In over 10 years of the sparc port there's never been a situation
> where "prtconf -pv" or similar did not get me the information I
> needed. :-)
>
> "prtconf" walks the device tree raw using /dev/openprom and
> pretty prints it like I assume your ppc "lsprop" thing does.
Probably. The question now is that if we want to somewhat converge, what
to do... either change sparc habits or change powerpc habits :-) I'll
let that fight happen between you and paulus and watch while having a
beer at LCA though :-)
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-02 5:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-31 1:38 [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem Mitch Bradley
2006-12-31 5:19 ` David Miller
2006-12-31 9:36 ` Mitch Bradley
2006-12-31 9:52 ` David Miller
2006-12-31 10:11 ` David Kahn
2006-12-31 10:49 ` David Miller
2006-12-31 11:47 ` Rene Rebe
2006-12-31 11:53 ` David Kahn
2007-01-01 3:48 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-02 3:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-02 18:43 ` Richard Smith
2006-12-31 15:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-31 20:46 ` David Miller
2007-01-01 3:37 ` David Kahn
2007-01-01 8:54 ` David Miller
2007-01-02 4:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-02 12:28 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-01 3:33 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-01 8:57 ` David Miller
2007-01-01 17:48 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-01 23:08 ` David Miller
2007-01-01 23:52 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-02 3:31 ` David Miller
2007-01-02 11:26 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-02 1:40 ` David Kahn
2007-01-02 3:36 ` David Miller
2007-01-01 18:10 ` Mitch Bradley
2007-01-01 19:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-02 4:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-02 4:30 ` David Miller
2007-01-02 4:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-02 5:01 ` David Miller
2007-01-02 5:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-01-02 5:44 ` David Miller
2007-01-02 12:36 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-02 11:03 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-02 3:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-02 12:22 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-02 20:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-02 21:28 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-02 21:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-02 21:40 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-02 22:10 ` David Miller
2007-01-02 22:05 ` David Miller
2007-01-03 0:48 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-03 4:34 ` David Miller
2007-01-03 15:23 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-04 2:15 ` David Miller
2007-01-02 3:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-02 3:49 ` David Miller
2007-01-02 11:45 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-02 20:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-31 13:24 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-12-31 18:55 ` Mitch Bradley
2006-12-31 14:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-31 20:45 ` David Miller
2006-12-31 21:30 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-02 3:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-02 11:37 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-02 13:22 ` Stefan Reinauer
2007-01-02 20:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-02 20:11 ` Mitch Bradley
2007-01-02 20:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-02 21:37 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-02 21:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-03 0:35 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-03 0:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-03 1:14 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-03 4:35 ` David Miller
2007-01-02 22:07 ` David Miller
2007-01-03 0:52 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-03 1:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-03 4:38 ` David Miller
2007-01-03 5:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-03 15:59 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-03 15:31 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-03 4:34 ` David Miller
2007-01-02 21:15 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-02 21:59 ` David Miller
2007-01-01 3:40 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-01 4:21 ` Segher Boessenkool
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-01-11 17:39 ron minnich
2007-01-11 17:53 ` Mitch Bradley
2007-01-11 17:55 ` ron minnich
2007-01-11 18:36 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-11 18:20 ` Stefan Reinauer
2007-01-11 18:47 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-11 19:12 ` ron minnich
2007-01-11 19:11 ` ron minnich
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