Re: [PATCH 2/4] sparc: break out some prom device-tree building code out into drivers/of

Andres Salomon
2010-07-06T03:24:47Z

On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:22:21 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> From: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 04:07:34 +0000
>
> > - For the pdt, calling into the prom once for each property/node to
> > create a fdt, and then unflattening it. This is better than the
> > previous option, but I don't think the prom->fdt code will be
> > very nice.
>
> I'll need this on sparc64 at some point to support kexec() anyways.
>
> So at least for sparc you can assume that a something-->fdt translator
> is going to exist at some point in the future regardless of what
> happens here.
>

Sounds like we have a winner. I'll concentrate on that, thanks for
the heads up.