Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 05:15:48 +0000
From: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] sparc: break out some prom device-tree building
 code out into drivers/of
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On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:22:21 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> From: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 04:07:34 +0000
> 
> >  - For the pdt, calling into the prom once for each property/node to
> >    create a fdt, and then unflattening it.  This is better than the
> >    previous option, but I don't think the prom->fdt code will be
> > very nice.
> 
> I'll need this on sparc64 at some point to support kexec() anyways.
> 
> So at least for sparc you can assume that a something-->fdt translator
> is going to exist at some point in the future regardless of what
> happens here.
> 


Sounds like we have a winner.  I'll concentrate on that, thanks for
the heads up.
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