> Can you briefly summarize the purpose of the OpenFirmware device tree?
The OF device tree describes all hardware devices in the system, and the relations between those devices. > How does/would Linux use the information in the tree? Linux would use this information to detect and configure devices. > Does it replace > or supplement things like the MP table, IRQ routing table, ACPI > tables, etc.? It can replace all of these (and actually get it right :-) ) Segher -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
