On Jan 19, 2005, at 9:08 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, 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=20
with OF

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

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much
 > > from him on it lately.
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The firmware interface on the ppc32 embedded side is some what=20

broken

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in my mind.

The binary structure which changes every few weeks and which is=20

shared
 > between the bootloader and the kernel? Yeah, "somewhat broken" is=20=

one

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way of putting it :)

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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=20=

2.

Out of interest, on ARM & m68k I would assume that the list of tag's=20
gets added to over time?

- kumar