On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, David Woodhouse wrote:

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 08:45 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:

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We did talk about looking at using some work Ben did in ppc64 with OF 
in ppc32.  John Masters was looking into this, but I havent heard much
from him on it lately.

The firmware interface on the ppc32 embedded side is some what broken 
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.

As does m68k... That's why we never got beyond bootinfo major version 2.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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