Device Tree

[Matt Sealey]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 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 :-)

I guess OpenBIOS counts too :)

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Matt Sealey <matt at genesi-usa.com>
Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations