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From: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale•com>
To: "Matt Porter" <mporter@kernel•crashing.org>
Cc: jonathan@jonmasters•org, linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: bi_recs
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 10:00:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20608413-1616-11D9-9774-000393DBC2E8@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041004074105.A11487@home.com>


On Oct 4, 2004, at 9:41 AM, Matt Porter wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 07:29:09AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
>  > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:07:20AM +0300, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
>  > > Tom Rini wrote:
>  > [snip]
>  > > >I've been thinking about it, and I do believe that Ben's=20
> flattened OF
>  > > >tree wins the "show me the code" race, so lets go that way.=A0=20=

> I'll add in
>  > > >that for most platforms we'll want to build up the tree at=20
> compile time,
>  > > >but U-Boot, and anything else smart enough can pass one in for=20=

> real.
>  > > >
>  > > >Jon, I look forward to your patch. :)
>  > > >
>  > > >
>  > > Allow me, to cut in and plug my own thing.
>  > [snip]
>  > > I just create an argv of all the environment variables of the=20
> firmware
>  > > and I pass the psysical address of that NULL terminated argv =
array
>  > > to the kernel command line like so... "u-boot-env=3D0x0f000f00".
> >
> > The 'problem' I forsee with this is that we still have two methods=20=

> for
>  > getting stuff in, an OF tree or env array.=A0 If we got with a fake =
OF
>  > tree, we have just one method and we can always use it.
>  >
> > [snip]
>  > > I know this is the Nth time this discussion is taking place bu=20
> IMO something
>  > > must be finally decided. I don't really care if my solution will=20=

> be selected
>  > > as long as something is at last selected.
>  >
> > As far as I'm concerned, unless some horrible problem springs up =
that
> > we can't resolve, this is it.
>
> Same here, I see that no one has raised a technical issue with the
>  flattened device tree method. Since it is a working mechanism AND it
>  unifies the arch, it's the clear choice over reinventing the wheel.
>  All we need is an implementation.

I'm in agreement with Matt and Tom.  We should only have one solution=20
to this problem.

- kumar

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-04 15:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-30 23:02 bi_recs Jon Masters
2004-09-30 23:21 ` bi_recs Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-30 23:53   ` bi_recs Jon Masters
2004-10-01  3:11     ` bi_recs Kumar Gala
2004-10-01  3:40       ` bi_recs Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-01 11:14         ` bi_recs Jon Masters
2004-10-01 14:53           ` [PATCH] for linuxppc-2.4 tree: adds Memec 2VP7 / 2VP4 board support Andrei Konovalov
2004-10-01 21:54           ` bi_recs Jon Masters
2004-10-02  4:35             ` bi_recs Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-02 12:59               ` bi_recs Jon Masters
2004-10-01 22:06       ` bi_recs Tom Rini
2004-10-04  6:07         ` bi_recs Pantelis Antoniou
2004-10-04 12:09           ` bi_recs Mark Chambers
2004-10-04 12:45           ` bi_recs Jon Masters
2004-10-04 16:43             ` bi_recs Dan Malek
2004-10-04 21:53               ` bi_recs Tom Rini
2004-10-04 20:20             ` bi_recs Wolfgang Denk
2004-10-04 14:29           ` bi_recs Tom Rini
2004-10-04 14:41             ` bi_recs Matt Porter
2004-10-04 15:00               ` Kumar Gala [this message]
2004-10-04 15:06               ` bi_recs Jon Masters
2004-10-04 15:47                 ` bi_recs Kumar Gala
2004-10-04 20:18           ` bi_recs Wolfgang Denk

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