Subject: Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
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       David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, wmb@firmworks.com, jg@laptop.org
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On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 12:45 +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > In addition, I haven't given on the idea one day of actually merging 
> > the
> > powerpc and sparc implementation of a lot of that stuff. Mostly the
> > device-tree accessors proper, the of_device/of_platform bits etc... 
> > into
> > something like drivers/of1394 maybe.
> 
> 1394?  :-)

Yeah, I'm tired, of1275 :-)

> > Thus if i386 is going to have a device-tree, please use the same
> > interfaces.
> 
> Such a hypothetical "converged" interface would not be
> identical to either the current SPARC or the PowerPC
> code, nor just a mix of those two.  It's a great plan
> to try to get to this eventually, but it will take time.
> A lot of it perhaps.

Ben.


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