linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem

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Date:	Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:56:07 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	David Kahn <dmk@...x.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, wmb@...mworks.com,
	devel@...top.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jg@...top.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem

> This is a trivial implementation that suits it's purpose.
> It's simple. I'm not sure what more is needed for this
> project when it's pretty clear that i386 will never need
> any additional support for open firmware.

I don't agree. It's definitely not clear to me.... Especially as open
source OF implementations are starting to show up, it makes a lot of
sense to start representing non-enumerable devices (CPUs, legacy
devices, embedded things etc...) in the device-tree and I fail to see
why an x86 OF-based machine would not get the ability to use it in the
same way as powerpc or sparc does in that regard.

Ben.

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