Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261743AbVASPPv (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:15:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261749AbVASPPv (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:15:51 -0500 Received: from az33egw02.freescale.net ([192.88.158.103]:15040 "EHLO az33egw02.freescale.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261743AbVASPPp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:15:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: "Paul Mackerras" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Linux Kernel list" , "linuxppc-dev list" , "David Woodhouse" , "H. Peter Anvin" From: Kumar Gala Subject: Re: [PATCH] raid6: altivec support Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:15:23 -0600 To: "Geert Uytterhoeven" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1137 Lines: 36 On Jan 19, 2005, at 9:08 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > 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. Out of interest, on ARM & m68k I would assume that the list of tag's gets added to over time? - kumar - 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/