From: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
To: "Geert Uytterhoeven" <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: "Paul Mackerras" <paulus@samba.org>,
"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@osdl.org>,
"Linux Kernel list" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linuxppc-dev list" <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
"David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] raid6: altivec support
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:15:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F0F87817-6A2C-11D9-AC28-000393DBC2E8@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0501191606260.15516@waterleaf.sonytel.be>
On Jan 19, 2005, at 9:08 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, 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.
>
> As does m68k... That's why we never got beyond bootinfo major version
> 2.
Out of interest, on ARM & m68k I would assume that the list of tag's
gets added to over time?
- kumar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-19 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200501082324.j08NOIva030415@hera.kernel.org>
2005-01-09 15:13 ` [PATCH] raid6: altivec support Olaf Hering
2005-01-17 10:16 ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-17 14:58 ` Kumar Gala
2005-01-19 4:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-19 7:43 ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-19 9:41 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-01-20 17:55 ` Tom Rini
2005-01-19 14:45 ` Kumar Gala
2005-01-19 14:48 ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-19 14:54 ` Kumar Gala
2005-01-19 15:08 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-01-19 15:15 ` Kumar Gala [this message]
2005-01-19 15:27 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-01-19 23:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-20 7:40 ` [Lists-linux-kernel-news] " Jon Masters
2005-01-19 18:07 ` Jon Masters
2005-01-19 23:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-23 11:17 ` Sven Luther
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