[PATCH] Start split out of common open firmware code

[David Miller]

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:36:14 +1000

> Note that for the filesystem, we really want to stick to our binary
> representation while you really want to stick to your text rep (we
> decided to disagree iirc :-) I think we could keep a lot in common still
> and just have a mount option to indicate how the file content is
> exposed.

I'm fine with that.

> It's not really 2.6.22 material as far as I'm concerned as I'm pretty
> busy with other things, unless of course Stephen feel like doing it
> all :-) I'll see what I can do for the next cycle though.

It would be nice to merge as much of the truly common stuff as
soon as possible.

The sooner I don't have to fix the same bug in multiple locations, the
better :)