18 Jan
2005
18 Jan
'05
12:02 a.m.
* Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov [050118 03:31]:
no argument that we have to create those tables, I just don't want the baseline format to be binary, if at all possible. It's very non-portable to non-x86 systems.
The baseline really is our internal device tree representation. Everything else should be generated from it.
Non-x86 has been kept rather clean from ACPI, MP, pirq. They did not spend the time to invent the same information passing 3 times ;-)
Those platforms rather offer an IEEE 1275-1994 interface (which is binary+callback, all evil combined, but it is well proven)
Stefan