On 07/11/07 01:54 +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 05:19:31PM -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: > > > I would like any BIOS compatibility to be opt-in, and to be > > > uninteresting because of new shinyness offered by LB and > > > understood by all. :) > > > > Except of course, the e820 table parser in the kernel... :) > > Not neccessarily. Only if that really is a plenty good interface for > the task. And maybe not even then, if there are enough other things > that shall be passed to the payload. > > What is the status of the OFW device tree parser in x86 Linux?
Its in the OLPC tree - I don't know if its made it all the way up stream yet - there was unpleasantness last year some time when they tried to push it, I think that stalled then. > Do we still want to go with that or roll our own LB->payload > interface? OFW device tree gets my vote. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
