On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Patrick Mochel wrote: > One thing that was talked about at OLS this year was a common table > standard for platforms that control their own firwmare: linuxbios, some > embedded PPC folk, and some arm folk. Typically, each wants to be able to > tell the kernel about the devices that are on the system (feed the kernel > an already constructured device tree), and resource information about some > of those devices. > > Jeff Garzik suggested I look in this direction, as you should already have > such a thing. Unfortunately, I haven't had much time..
I think Eric has done much of the work in this area. Worth a look. ron
