On 8/21/08, Grant Likely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Scott Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David Miller wrote: > >>> > >>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:10:12AM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > >> If you guys created this format in your compressed openfirmware > >> trees, is it possible for you to "fix" it to match what Sparc > >> systems following the proper bindings do? > > > > Possibly, though it'll cause some pain when old trees are used with a > kernel > > that expects the new binding. > > > Ugh, more like loads of pain. There are deployed platforms using the > embedded 'invented' bindings. I don't think it is an option to break > compatibility with older trees. If there is some backwards > compatibility code then I'm all for migrating to the same binding as > Sparc and PowerMac
Has anything really been deployed? These bindings are only a few months old. -- Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list [email protected] https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
