[coreboot] patch: more path support

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Thu Feb 14 23:35:39 CET 2008


Thanks for the notes. We did in the end resolve in favor of '@'.

ron

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Segher Boessenkool
<segher at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > We are of course free to go away from the ePAPR flat device tree (we
>  > did already to some extent).
>
>  I am not talking about the ePAPR flat tree.  I am talking about the
>  flat tree as used in PowerPC Linux for many years now.
>
>
>  > I agree with Segher we should stay close to the "original". That's why
>  > we used dtc for our device tree creation to begin with. It has a
>  > recognition effect, making it easier for others to join in.
>
>  It's also well-proven technology.  And lastly, wouldn't it be nice if
>  we could hand-off the DTB to the kernel at boot -- bye-bye legacy
>  interfaces.
>
>
>  > Also, at some point we're not writing the DTS manually anymore
>  > anyways, so it doesn't really matter ;-))
>
>  You'll always have to write some of it by hand, in one form or another,
>  for some system-specific devices that cannot be probed or that you don't
>  want to probe for (PHBs, I/O bridges, ...)
>
>
>  Segher
>
>




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