85xx FDT updates?

[Kumar Gala]

On Apr 25, 2006, at 1:29 PM, Brent Cook wrote:

> On Tuesday 25 April 2006 13:24, Eugene Surovegin wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 01:14:55PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>>> What you will end up with is that that small amount of embedded  
>>>> people
>>>> who bother to contribute something back will stop doing this. We  
>>>> are
>>>> more than capable of maintaining our internal kernel trees :).
>>>
>>> I'm not sure what to say to this.  Things need to move forward at
>>> some point.
>>
>> I don't see how removing features and breaking compatibility with
>> almost _all_ current embedded PPC boards boards is "moving forward".
>> Enlighten me, please.
>>
>>> I still not clear as to what exactly you are advocating
>>> beyond that we should keep the arch/ppc code around for ever.
>>
>> Providing compatibility for non-flat-tree firmware. This doesn't mean
>> keeping arch/ppc.
>
> Would it be possible to create the device tree in the kernel and  
> then jump
> into the normal entry point? We need some sort of translation shim  
> between
> the normal kernel and whatever oddball method firmware X chooses to  
> hand-off
> to the kernel.

Agreed, that would be nice.  I would love for someone to create such  
a thing.  I personally dont have any time or interesting in it.

- kumar