From: Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa•com>
To: Gerald Van Baren <gvb.linuxppc.dev@gmail•com>
Cc: hrétien <chretien@enseirb•fr>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: Device Tree
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:08:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48E2B16C.6030501@genesi-usa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eee4c0020809301530w20d6d1e4sd2e3542366cc595d@mail.gmail.com>
Gerald Van Baren wrote:
> Matt Sealey wrote:
>>
>> The Toshiba TOPAS910 ARM development board also runs Open Firmware and
>> contains patches to support OF device trees.
>>
>> I dare say there might be an x86 box or two out there, too. But they
>> have ACPI tables too which is far more common..
>
> More than a box or two: lots of OLPC XOs out there now. ;-)
> <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Open_Firmware>
I was thinking more in a platform kind of numbers rather than a sales
kind of numbers, but you're right.
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.
--
Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa•com>
Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-30 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-29 6:24 Device Tree Sébastien Chrétien
2008-09-29 8:25 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-30 15:22 ` Matt Sealey
2008-09-30 22:30 ` Gerald Van Baren
2008-09-30 23:08 ` Matt Sealey [this message]
2008-10-01 3:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-01 13:09 ` Matt Sealey
2008-10-29 21:04 ` Sébastien Chrétien
2008-09-29 8:25 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-29 8:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-09-09 15:43 Georg Schardt
2008-09-09 17:33 ` Josh Boyer
2008-09-09 18:11 ` John Linn
2008-09-09 18:19 ` Georg Schardt
2008-09-09 18:24 ` John Linn
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