Hi, Rhonda. On Sep 11 2008, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Sounds pretty much like my problem indeed, even though I don't know > anything about tmds chips or what OF stands for.
In the context of powerpcs, OF usually stands for OpenFirmware. A simplified view of it is that it provides the operating system with a tree of nodes, with each node representing a device of your system. In the case of some other architectures that don't provide this tree, the kernel has to be especially compiled with a blob that describes the abilities of the hardware. This blob is compiled from a source from the kernel tree via a tool called dtc, which stands for "device-tree-compiler". This tree is then "unpacked" by the kernel and used in the /proc filesystem, in a very similar way that the Open Firmware tree is present in the /proc filesystem. If you need further information, I think that I can teach you as much as I know. :-) Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
