Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261978AbVASXbB (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:31:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261979AbVASX3q (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:29:46 -0500 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:26093 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261978AbVASX1F (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:27:05 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] raid6: altivec support From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: David Woodhouse Cc: Kumar Gala , Paul Mackerras , Jon Masters , Olaf Hering , Linus Torvalds , linuxppc-dev list , "H. Peter Anvin" , Linux Kernel list In-Reply-To: <1106146083.26551.526.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> References: <1106120622.10851.42.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> <1106146083.26551.526.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:25:29 +1100 Message-Id: <1106177129.5327.43.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 940 Lines: 25 On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 14:48 +0000, 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. And ppc64 adds a flattened device-tree format, even better imho :) Ben. - 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/