Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/16] Add device tree for Ebony

From: Segher Boessenkool <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:40:13 +0100

>> Still, if you want to be compatible to "real OF" (and you
>> do, otherwise you would have chosen a structure that is
>> more appropriate for this goal),
>
> We don't require an OF device tree;

When booting on real OF you do.

> what we require is something that
> provides a way to express what the kernel needs to know about the
> hierarchy, interconnections and characteristics of the devices in the
> system.

Sure.  You could have chosen a structure that is closer to the
internal Linux structures.

> That it looks strangely familiar to you is just a
> coincidence. :)

Heh suuuuuuuure :-)

Segher