Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 14 Jan 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > > The one thing being openfirmware compatible would get us is a cross platform > > way to initialize video cards :) > > The only other thing is you won't have to argue with anyone about adding a > table parser to Linux-- it's already in there for linuxbios.
O.k. I just looked this up. Open firmware has a function call interface. Not a text based table parser. So yes we can design to be interoperible. No we can't use open firmware tables. They don't exist. Eric
