[U-Boot-Users] Re: RFC: Booting the Linux/ppc64 kernel without Open Firmware HOWTO (#2)

Hollis Blanchard
2005-05-20T04:26:38Z

On May 18, 2005, at 11:56 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> - name has to be "chosen"
> - linux,platform : This is your platform number as assigned by the
> architecture maintainers

Given the seemingly endless embedded boards not developed by "core
community" folks, wouldn't it be better for firmware to identify itself
with a distributed namespace like "vendor.model" and let the kernel
figure out whatever unique number that should be?

Requiring everyone to request a special number from kernel maintainers
seems unnecessary. Or perhaps you're trying to enforce tighter
development interaction...?

-Hollis