[PATCH 08/10] cell: add support for proper device-tree

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Tue Apr 24 09:16:57 EST 2007


On Monday 23 April 2007, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Christian Krafft <krafft at de.ibm.com>
> 
> This patch adds support for a proper device-tree.
> A porper device-tree on cell contains be nodes
> for each CBE containg nodes for SPEs and all the
> other special devices on it.
> Ofcourse oldschool devicetree is still supported.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Krafft <krafft at de.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann at de.ibm.com>

Christian, I only now saw that there is this rather important
patch left, it never stood out as something for 2.6.21 and now
it's too late for that.
This might explain why people could not boot some hardware
with Fedora 7.

Should we try to get this in as a hotfix?

	Arnd <><



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