[OLPC-devel] Re: Device tree

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 07:40 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote:
> c) I will go out on a limb and say that I could add rudimentary OF 
> device tree support to either or both of LinuxBIOS and a custom kernel 
> in a very short time.  Especially if the actual configuration is mostly 
> known.  No methods, just properties.  You may well ask: Why bother with 
> a device tree if the configuration is known?  The answer: Because when 
> we do the 2nd generation hardware and kernel, we will wish that we had.

The PowerPC kernel already has code to handle a compressed device-tree
'blob', for booting from bootloaders which aren't really OF.

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dwmw2