From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from plan.enseirb.fr (plan.enseirb.fr [147.210.18.60]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 298F6DDEF3 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:04:22 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <4908CFC7.5030306@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:04:07 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien_Chr=E9tien?= MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Sealey 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> <48E3767F.907@genesi-usa.com> In-Reply-To: <48E3767F.907@genesi-usa.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: "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: , Thank for your answers. Sébastien Matt Sealey a écrit : > 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 :) >