Messages in this thread | | | From | Segher Boessenkool <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem | Date | Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:36:22 +0100 |
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>> Segher has a modification to the devtree patch that creates a lower >> level ops vector that can be implemented with callback or >> non-callback. >> >> It is still being tested.
It currently only hooks up OLPC, and I don't have any of those [hint hint], so I need external testers. I'll send the patch to LKML if it does work. However, the way it implements the filesystem will need significant changes, but we'll discuss that later :-)
> Wonderful! If the non-callback version works out,
We use it on many PowerPC platforms already, it works just fine.
> then we can greatly > widen the potential use of the OF device tree for many BIOSes. If that > works, then we can put the proprietary tables into a small box and > ignore them :-)
Yup, the DTC-generated tree is just a single binary blob from the perspective of passing it around.
Segher
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