Subject: Re: RTAS on PowerMac Newworld

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 16:41:31 +0200

>In the kernel for PPC, a lot a code is here just to do what doing RTAS :
>pci config,
>via (CUDA and PMU) (no need if no ADB keyboard), ...
>When doing embedded systems, this drivers is very big and can be saving by
>using
>RTAS which i think is a very good thing in  CHRP specification. It's
>strange that
>apple do not provide it fully.

Well, they didn't care about it. Note that Macs are far from beeing
embedded boxes ;)

Ben.

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