Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Make more OF-related bootwrapper functions available to non-OF platforms

From: Segher Boessenkool <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:44:46 +0200

> Commit 2e6016133755eb3cc44e8efab92573d23ed75888 split up
> arch/powerpc/boot/of.c so that some OF functions can be used on
> platforms that don't want to use the overall OF platform boot code.
> This is useful on things like PReP which can have an OF implementation
> which is useful for debugging output, but inadequate for booting.
>
> However, that commit didn't export quite enough things to make a
> usable OF console on a non-OF system.  In particular, the device tree
> manipulation performed to initialize the OF console code must
> explicitly use the OF device tree, rather than the flattened device
> tree, even if the system is otherwise booting using a flattened device
> tree.  This patch makes it so.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <[email-masked]>

Looks good to me, I assume you tested it?  You didn't
mention on what hardware...

Segher