On Jan 19, 2005, at 8:48 AM, David Woodhouse wrote:

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 08:45 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
 > We did talk about looking at using some work Ben did in ppc64 with=20=

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in ppc32.=A0 John Masters was looking into this, but I havent heard=20=

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The firmware interface on the ppc32 embedded side is some what =

broken

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in my mind.

The binary structure which changes every few weeks and which is shared
 between the bootloader and the kernel? Yeah, "somewhat broken" is one
way of putting it :)

The ARM kernel does it a lot better with tag,value pairs.

The funny thing is that one of the variants on ppc32 supports tag,=20
value pairs

- kumar=