Device Tree

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Oct 1 13:24:55 EST 2008


On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 18:08 -0500, Matt Sealey wrote:
> It's far more common than people might think at first glance. With x86
> I am sure it would benefit the platform a little more if the OF support
> was in-line with the shared code between PPC and SPARC (and now I guess,
> ARM) but nevertheless it's an Open Firmware platform and something that
> appeared not too long ago.
> 
> OF is still a going concern; if you want a nice flexible firmware, why
> not use it? Most of the implementations are open source (FirmWorks and
> CodeGen trees, and the Sun reference design) too.

And SLOF :-)

Cheers,
Ben.





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