Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261748AbVASP1u (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:27:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261750AbVASP1t (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:27:49 -0500 Received: from witte.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:32651 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261748AbVASP1r (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:27:47 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:27:17 +0100 (MET) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Kumar Gala cc: Paul Mackerras , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel list , linuxppc-dev list , David Woodhouse , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] raid6: altivec support In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: 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: 1439 Lines: 36 On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Kumar Gala wrote: > On Jan 19, 2005, at 9:08 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > 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? That's true. But besides the recent conversion of the HP9000/[34]00 code to use bootinfo, not much has changed during the last 5 years. If a tag is not recognized, it's just ignored. That means your new feature cannot be used by the kernel, but it doesn't break the bootloader<->kernel interface the hard way. 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/