[OpenBIOS] [PATCH 0/4] Changes for MorphOS
Mark Cave-Ayland
mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk
Sat Mar 8 13:40:14 CET 2014
On 08/03/14 01:32, Tarl Neustaedter wrote:
> On 2014-Mar-7, 20:26 , BALATON Zoltan wrote:
>> [...]
>> 2. Change the device device name in
>> openbios-devel/forth/device/tree.fs to device-tree
>> Not sure what was the consensus of the review for this one.
>
> I missed the reason you wanted the name changed; I commented at the time
> that for IEEE 1275, the name property at the root node is supposed to be
> the platform name. Why do you want it called "device-tree", which would
> certainly be incorrect?
Believe it or not, it's actually what Apple use for the device name for
the root node of their OF device trees: see
http://web.archive.org/web/20090107145016/http://penguinppc.org/historical/dev-trees-html/g4_agp_400_1.html#.
for an example.
Although I would also argue that using this method to detect the
platform being used is a fairly brain-dead client behaviour too...
ATB,
Mark.
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