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Message-ID: <459AA7EE.2090202@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 13:43:58 -0500 From: Richard Smith <smithbone@...il.com> To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> CC: David Kahn <dmk@...x.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, devel@...top.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >> 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 If Linuxbios has its way then this is indeed not true. We are in the middle of our design for V3 and the hardware representation will be based on a device-tree description. From that we plan to auto generate the various tables that i386 stuff uses. But ideally the kernel could get all it needed from the device-tree. At least 1 major manufacturer is interested in providing LinuxBios on some of its motherboards and AMD supports LinuxBios so in the near future x86 should have a real reason to have full device-tree support. -- Richard A. Smith. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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