Subject: Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: David Kahn <dmk@flex.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, wmb@firmworks.com, devel@laptop.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jg@laptop.org
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Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:56:07 +1100
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> This is a trivial implementation that suits it's purpose.
> It's simple. I'm not sure what more is needed for this
> project when it's pretty clear that i386 will never need
> any additional support for open firmware.

I don't agree. It's definitely not clear to me.... Especially as open
source OF implementations are starting to show up, it makes a lot of
sense to start representing non-enumerable devices (CPUs, legacy
devices, embedded things etc...) in the device-tree and I fail to see
why an x86 OF-based machine would not get the ability to use it in the
same way as powerpc or sparc does in that regard.

Ben.


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