From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758494AbYDTTRW (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:17:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754838AbYDTTRP (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:17:15 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:33853 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752686AbYDTTRO (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:17:14 -0400 Message-ID: <480B95B4.5030203@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:12:52 -0400 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mitch Bradley CC: Andres Salomon , Yinghai Lu , "Eric W. Biederman" , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Joseph Fannin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jordan.crouse@amd.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] OLPC: Add support for calling into Open Firmware References: <20080418014757.52fb4a4f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080419031024.GC3503@nineveh.local> <20080418202925.b18452c5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080419092544.378664a8@ephemeral> <20080419133909.5aa6b63e@ephemeral> <86802c440804200334t5cdcd100rfc41e9b1bf379109@mail.gmail.com> <480B321B.5020802@zytor.com> <20080420135948.61bdb4c9@ephemeral> <480B8E9F.8000701@firmworks.com> In-Reply-To: <480B8E9F.8000701@firmworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mitch Bradley wrote: > > The x86 architecture doesn't make this problem easy. > [long rant about the x86 architecture] It would be more useful if you described the actual defined entry conditions from OpenFirmware look like, including if they are well-defined for all OF implementations or only for OLPC. -hpa