Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-02T20:07:22Z

On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 12:45 +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > In addition, I haven't given on the idea one day of actually merging
> > the
> > powerpc and sparc implementation of a lot of that stuff. Mostly the
> > device-tree accessors proper, the of_device/of_platform bits etc...
> > into
> > something like drivers/of1394 maybe.
>
> 1394? :-)

Yeah, I'm tired, of1275 :-)

> > Thus if i386 is going to have a device-tree, please use the same
> > interfaces.
>
> Such a hypothetical "converged" interface would not be
> identical to either the current SPARC or the PowerPC
> code, nor just a mix of those two. It's a great plan
> to try to get to this eventually, but it will take time.
> A lot of it perhaps.

Ben.