Subject: Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 21:01 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:57:05 +1100
> 
> > I like being able to have a simple way (ie. tar /proc/device-tree) to
> > tell user to send me their DT and have in the end an exact binary
> > representation so I can actually dig for problems, like a wrong phandle
> > in an interrupt-map or stuff like that...
> 
> "prtconf -pv" is what I'd ask the user to do on Sparc, or something
> similar.
> 
> In over 10 years of the sparc port there's never been a situation
> where "prtconf -pv" or similar did not get me the information I
> needed. :-)
> 
> "prtconf" walks the device tree raw using /dev/openprom and
> pretty prints it like I assume your ppc "lsprop" thing does.

Probably. The question now is that if we want to somewhat converge, what
to do... either change sparc habits or change powerpc habits :-) I'll
let that fight happen between you and paulus and watch while having a
beer at LCA though :-)

Ben.


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