On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 07:40 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: > 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.
The PowerPC kernel already has code to handle a compressed device-tree 'blob', for booting from bootloaders which aren't really OF. -- dwmw2 _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
