From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-gx0-f21.google.com (mail-gx0-f21.google.com [209.85.217.21]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 624F6DE2AD for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:09:28 +1000 (EST) Received: by gxk14 with SMTP id 14so84369gxk.9 for ; Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:09:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48E3767F.907@genesi-usa.com> Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:09:19 -0500 From: Matt Sealey MIME-Version: 1.0 To: benh@kernel.crashing.org Subject: Re: Device Tree References: <48E07490.9020805@enseirb.fr> <48E09108.4020400@ru.mvista.com> <48E2444D.1050301@genesi-usa.com> <48E2B16C.6030501@genesi-usa.com> <1222831495.12264.2.camel@pasglop> In-Reply-To: <1222831495.12264.2.camel@pasglop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: Matt Sealey Cc: =?UTF-8?B?aHLDqXRpZW4=?= , "Sébastien C"@ozlabs.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 18:08 -0500, Matt Sealey wrote: >> It's far more common than people might think at first glance. With x86 >> I am sure it would benefit the platform a little more if the OF support >> was in-line with the shared code between PPC and SPARC (and now I guess, >> ARM) but nevertheless it's an Open Firmware platform and something that >> appeared not too long ago. >> >> OF is still a going concern; if you want a nice flexible firmware, why >> not use it? Most of the implementations are open source (FirmWorks and >> CodeGen trees, and the Sun reference design) too. > > And SLOF :-) I guess OpenBIOS counts too :) -- Matt Sealey Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations