Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261747AbVASOuS (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:50:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261742AbVASOuR (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:50:17 -0500 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([205.233.218.70]:4627 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261741AbVASOtB (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:49:01 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] raid6: altivec support From: David Woodhouse To: Kumar Gala Cc: Paul Mackerras , Jon Masters , Olaf Hering , Linus Torvalds , linuxppc-dev list , "H. Peter Anvin" , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Linux Kernel list In-Reply-To: References: <1106120622.10851.42.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:48:03 +0000 Message-Id: <1106146083.26551.526.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3.dwmw2.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by canuck.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 792 Lines: 22 On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 08:45 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote: > We did talk about looking at using some work Ben did in ppc64 with OF > in ppc32. John Masters was looking into this, but I havent heard much > from him on it lately. > > The firmware interface on the ppc32 embedded side is some what broken > in my mind. The binary structure which changes every few weeks and which is shared between the bootloader and the kernel? Yeah, "somewhat broken" is one way of putting it :) The ARM kernel does it a lot better with tag,value pairs. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/