[PATCH 1/6] Start split out of common open firmware code

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Apr 25 11:51:23 EST 2007


On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 02:50:13AM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >> While I realise your patch is just moving stuff around,
> >> can this be fixed please?  A missing "#address-cells"
> >> property means "two cells", not "inherit from parent".
> >> The few platforms with a broken tree should just be
> >> fixed (patch the tree in the bootwrapper, or perhaps
> >> _do_ use this workaround, but only on the affected
> >> platforms).
> >
> > If you can get me access to all of the old PowerMac or CHRP crap with
> > broken device-tree's ...
> 
> No I can't, which is exactly why I cannot fix it myself.
> 
> > Note that I don't think there's much cases of such breakage on the
> > field,
> 
> For PowerPC it is mostly the G3 PowerMacs I believe.

I have one of those.  What exactly do you need from it?  I can probably do
some testing with it if needs be.

josh



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