RFC: Booting the Linux/ppc64 kernel without Open Firmware HOWTO (#2)

[Hollis Blanchard]

On May 18, 2005, at 11:56 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
>     - name has to be "chosen"
>     - linux,platform : This is your platform number as assigned by the
>       architecture maintainers

Given the seemingly endless embedded boards not developed by "core 
community" folks, wouldn't it be better for firmware to identify itself 
with a distributed namespace like "vendor.model" and let the kernel 
figure out whatever unique number that should be?

Requiring everyone to request a special number from kernel maintainers 
seems unnecessary. Or perhaps you're trying to enforce tighter 
development interaction...?

-Hollis