[LinuxBIOS] [BUILDROM]: Disable OFW

[Jordan Crouse]

Okay, now that everybody has recovered from the last patch, here's the 
last one - disable OFW for the short term in buildrom.  Reason being,
that it only worked for OLPC, and the previous patch removed OLPC.   I
discussed the matter briefly with Stefan and Segher, and they tell me
that there are ongoing efforts to make OFW or a OpenFirmware clone of
some sort usable on a generic x86.  I support that 100%, I think OFW
is a vital payload for this project.  I just don't know enough about
OpenFirmware to get the job done.  So I am submitting a patch to
disable, but not to remove the OFW scripts, so that those who do know
what they are doing can port the code easily.  When everything works,
revert this patch, and we're off to the races.

Jordan

[Uwe Hermann]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 02:13:17PM -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> [BUILDROM]:  Disable OFW
>
> Since OFW in buildrom was only for OLPC, not having OLPC means that OFW
> isn't useful right now - hopefully somebody can do do the work to make
> OFW or a clone useful for generic x86 platforms.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse

Acked-by: Uwe Hermann

Uwe.

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Jordan Crouse  [071002 22:13]:
> Okay, now that everybody has recovered from the last patch, here's the 
> last one - disable OFW for the short term in buildrom.  Reason being,
> that it only worked for OLPC, and the previous patch removed OLPC.   I
> discussed the matter briefly with Stefan and Segher, and they tell me
> that there are ongoing efforts to make OFW or a OpenFirmware clone of
> some sort usable on a generic x86.  I support that 100%, I think OFW
> is a vital payload for this project.  I just don't know enough about
> OpenFirmware to get the job done.  So I am submitting a patch to
> disable, but not to remove the OFW scripts, so that those who do know
> what they are doing can port the code easily.  When everything works,
> revert this patch, and we're off to the races.

Please don't! There has been a lot of ongoing effort to make this work
(not with buildrom yet, though), and I think this slimming down is the
wrong direction. If its broken, someone might fix it. If its gone, its
gone.