Device Tree

Sébastien Chrétien sebastien.chretien.enseirb at gmail.com
Thu Oct 30 08:04:07 EST 2008


Thank for your answers.
Sébastien

Matt Sealey a écrit :
> 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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