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a) I think we need our own sub-architecture, sooner rather than later.
I could give a bunch of reasons, but I suspect that they are obvious to
everyone here, considering how little our hardware resembles a legacy PC.
b) Do we really need PCI autoconfiguration at this point? The wiki
hardware spec doesn't mention the mini-PCI connector. Can we just
pretend that it doesn't exist? That would remove a lot of variables
from the startup and suspend/resume sequence. Removing unnecessary
variables is a Very Good Thing.
c) I will go out on a limb and say that I could add rudimentary OF
device tree support to either or both of LinuxBIOS and a custom kernel
in a very short time. Especially if the actual configuration is mostly
known. No methods, just properties. You may well ask: Why bother with
a device tree if the configuration is known? The answer: Because when
we do the 2nd generation hardware and kernel, we will wish that we had.
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