Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261740AbVASPIs (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:08:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261743AbVASPIs (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:08:48 -0500 Received: from witte.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:24451 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261740AbVASPIr (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:08:47 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:08:07 +0100 (MET) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: David Woodhouse cc: Kumar Gala , Linux Kernel list , linuxppc-dev list , Linus Torvalds , Paul Mackerras , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] raid6: altivec support In-Reply-To: <1106146083.26551.526.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <1106120622.10851.42.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> <1106146083.26551.526.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1228 Lines: 32 On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, David Woodhouse wrote: > 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. As does m68k... That's why we never got beyond bootinfo major version 2. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - 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/