Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] Start split out of common open firmware code

From: Segher Boessenkool <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:11:27 +0200

>> end up with the OF analogue to an MSI layer that only
>> ever can work on intel compatible platforms.
>
> Please don't use this straw-man.
>
> These days it works perfectly fine on sparc64.

Yes, but how long did that take?  And why? That's my
point, not that "after this things cannot be solved
anymore" -- sure they can, it gets a lot harder though.

Segher