[PATCH 0/5] powerpc: add device tree property updates

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Jan 12 08:48:54 EST 2006


On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 03:59 -0600, Dave C Boutcher wrote:
> The following set of patches add support for updating device
> tree properties on the fly.  pseries is adding some 
> awfull^h^h^h^h^h^h helpful RTAS calls named "ibm,update-nodes"
> and "ibm,update-properties".  We can call those from userland,
> but we need the interfaces to update the device trees.

Looks like it's really time to turn /proc/device-tree into a
filesystem... that will solve most of the problems of having properties
or nodes changing.

Ben.





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