From: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo•fr>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle•de>
Cc: akpm@osdl•org, Sven Luther <sl@bplan-gmbh•de>,
tilmann@bitterberg•de, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] enable RTAS /proc for PowerPC/CHRP platform
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:37:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061020073745.GC17286@powerlinux.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061020072037.GA4355@aepfle.de>
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 09:20:37AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> > Exact, it is not about poluting, but about rationalizing. The fact is that
> > these are the two infos that are the most necessary to userland, then why
> > disseminate the info in thousand different places, instead of making it easily
> > available in a canonical place in a standard format for everyone ?
>
> cpuinfo is about the cpu, not the board layout nor the firmware
> expectations.
What is the machine: field doing there then ? Would it make sense to provide a
machineinfo then ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-20 7:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-17 11:29 [PATCH] enable RTAS /proc for PowerPC/CHRP platform Nicolas DET
2006-10-17 13:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-10-17 22:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-18 22:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-20 8:13 ` Nicolas DET
2006-10-18 5:51 ` Nicolas DET
2006-10-18 6:05 ` Sven Luther
2006-10-18 6:15 ` Michael Ellerman
2006-10-18 6:34 ` Nicolas DET
2006-10-18 7:38 ` Olaf Hering
2006-10-18 22:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-19 7:03 ` Olaf Hering
2006-10-19 23:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-20 5:44 ` Olaf Hering
2006-10-20 5:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-20 6:24 ` Sven Luther
2006-10-20 6:44 ` Olaf Hering
2006-10-20 6:58 ` Sven Luther
2006-10-20 7:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-20 7:36 ` Sven Luther
2006-10-20 8:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-20 7:20 ` Olaf Hering
2006-10-20 7:37 ` Sven Luther [this message]
2006-10-20 7:49 ` Olaf Hering
2006-10-20 8:12 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-10-20 8:52 ` Sven Luther
2006-10-20 10:00 ` Olaf Hering
2006-10-20 13:59 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-10-20 7:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-20 7:14 ` Olaf Hering
2006-10-20 7:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-20 10:01 ` Paul Mackerras
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