Greg Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Dec 9, 2004, at 10:49 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > "Ronald G. Minnich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> > >>> I am still worried about ppc, and big endian architectures in general. > >>> But I don't think we currently have any users there. > >> > >> we do. I think I'd like to hear Greg Watson's take on this as he is > >> working with the PPC 970 guys and this will impact him. > > > > Ron we have users of the LinxuBIOS table on PPC? It was my impression that > > we > > did not. > > > > I would be happy to hear what Greg has to say. If nothing uses this entry > > I will be happy to change this. Otherwise we need to know what the test > > program below reports on ppc. > > Nothing uses this currently, but I will be providing support to pass the > entire > device tree to a payload in the near future. Whether this will be using > linuxbios tables, s-expressions or XML depends on the results of the current > discussion. > > On ppc32, gcc-3.2.2 I get a size of 24. I'll try ppc64 later today.
Thanks. Then I am going to ``fix'' the table definition so it returns a size of 20 even on ppc. What we do later is still in the air. But at least the current situation can be corrected without a flag day. Eric _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios