On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 01:18:50PM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
Kevin, how would you feel about it if we handed the device tree off to you? Just wondering.
Here are our choices.
- ACPI
Well, the OS needs ACPI, but I'm defnitiely not going to parse a DSDT in SeaBIOS.
- device tree
- OFW tree.
I'm not that familiar with them. My preference would be something very simple, like key/value pairs. I don't object to a heirarchical storage if it's simple though.
I guess we need to solve this now anyway, other payloads will be able to use it.
How much time does your max bus detect add to boot time?
That's a good question. I don't have a reliable way of measuring times. I don't perceive a slowdown, but it's hard to tell because epia-cn is a bit quirky right now -- coreboot seems to reboot like three or four times before launching SeaBIOS.
-Kevin