[PATCH 2/4] sparc: break out some prom device-tree building code out into drivers/of

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Tue Jul 6 12:22:21 EST 2010


From: Andres Salomon <dilinger at queued.net>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 04:07:34 +0000

>  - For the pdt, calling into the prom once for each property/node to
>    create a fdt, and then unflattening it.  This is better than the
>    previous option, but I don't think the prom->fdt code will be very
>    nice.

I'll need this on sparc64 at some point to support kexec() anyways.

So at least for sparc you can assume that a something-->fdt translator
is going to exist at some point in the future regardless of what
happens here.



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