On Jul 6, 2008, at 8:39 PM, David Gibson wrote:
Well... they may be Linux specific by default, but they're supposed to
be general enough that they (or at least, very small extensions)
*could* become official OF bindings, if there was still an OF group to
make them so. It certainly should be possible to use these bindings
in a firmware which provides an OF client interface as well as in
flat-tree-only firmwares which don't.
Right, it's a classic case of embrace and extend. Calling it OF is
just plain misleading, especially since the original document was
called booting _WITHOUT_ OF.
-Olof