[PATCH] enable RTAS /proc for PowerPC/CHRP platform

Olaf Hering olaf at aepfle.de
Fri Oct 20 17:49:23 EST 2006


On Fri, Oct 20, Sven Luther wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 09:20:37AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 20, Sven Luther wrote:
> > 
> > > Exact, it is not about poluting, but about rationalizing. The fact is that
> > > these are the two infos that are the most necessary to userland, then why
> > > disseminate the info in thousand different places, instead of making it easily
> > > available in a canonical place in a standard format for everyone ? 
> > 
> > cpuinfo is about the cpu, not the board layout nor the firmware
> > expectations.
> 
> What is the machine: field doing there then ? Would it make sense to provide a
> machineinfo then ? 

All historical bullshit. Use the device-tree.



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