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

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Apr 24 11:48:25 EST 2007


On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 01:16 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 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?

Please do.

Ben.





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