Hitendra Zhangada wrote:
> Jerry Gilliam wrote:
>>
>> I am sponsoring this project as a fast-track on behalf of Jan
>> Setje-Eilers and John Johnson. The case timer is set to 8/7/2007.
>
> FYI. Added FWARC to the mailing list. One comment below.
>
>
>>
>> A new node (/packages/boot-properties) will be added to the OBP device
>> tree by
>> the booter which contains these properties.
>
> Is there a reason to create new node under /packages instead of
> under /chosen node? /chosen is defined by IEEE 1275 standard
> to contain properties such as "bootpath", "bootargs" etc.
> It seems like /chosen node is a better place to add the new node.
>
That was my first choice, but there doesn't seem to be a
way for a client to add properties to /chosen. The 'setprop' client
i/f only allows you to modify an existing property, and /chosen
doesn't have an open method, so you can't do $open-package/property.
Internally, obp does 'chosen-variable', but it's headerless, so
escaping to forth doesn't work either.
JJ
