On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 06:07:24PM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: > Subject: PS3: Add os-area database routines > > Add support for a simple tagged database in the PS3 flash rom > os-area. The database allows the flash rom os-area to be shared > between a bootloader and installed operating systems. The > application ps3-flash-util or the library libps3-utils from the > ps3-utils package can be used for userspace database operations.
Perhaps I missed the discussion; but .. out of general curiosity, what is the relation between this and the ppc_md.nvram_* system? I note that pseries, powermac, chrp, celleb implement the nvram calls, but cell and ps3 do not. So clearly, whatever this is, its not layered on top of nvram? FWIW, I don't quite understand the nvram system; it seems to have partitions; one part is an "os area", and a chuck of it is set up as a file system. So I'm wondering -- wouldn't the DB os-area be "generically interesting" to other ppowerpc platforms? Maybe even other arches? And why isn't this built on top of the nvram structure? ... etc? --linas _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev