From: Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa•com>
To: benh@kernel•crashing.org
Cc: hrétien <chretien@enseirb•fr>,
"Sébastien C"@ozlabs.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: Device Tree
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:09:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48E3767F.907@genesi-usa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1222831495.12264.2.camel@pasglop>
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 18:08 -0500, Matt Sealey wrote:
>> 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.
>
> And SLOF :-)
I guess OpenBIOS counts too :)
--
Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa•com>
Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-01 13:09 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
2008-10-01 3:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-01 13:09 ` Matt Sealey [this message]
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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