linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] sparc: break out some prom device-tree building code out into drivers/of

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Date:	Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:22:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dilinger@...ued.net
Cc:	grant.likely@...retlab.ca, devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, cjb@...top.org, wmb@...top.org,
	pgf@...top.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] sparc: break out some prom device-tree building
 code out into drivers/of

From: Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 04:07:34 +0000

>  - For the pdt, calling into the prom once for each property/node to
>    create a fdt, and then unflattening it.  This is better than the
>    previous option, but I don't think the prom->fdt code will be very
>    nice.

I'll need this on sparc64 at some point to support kexec() anyways.

So at least for sparc you can assume that a something-->fdt translator
is going to exist at some point in the future regardless of what
happens here.

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