[PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem
David Miller
davem at davemloft.net
Sun Dec 31 15:46:12 EST 2006
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:41:03 +0000
> On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 02:49:17AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > Am I the only person who sees something very wrong with this?
>
> No, I completely agree with you on this.
>
> If firmworks really wants to have a spearate filesystem that's fine.
> But please start with the ppc or sparc code and massage it into a
> a separate filesystem before adding support for a new platform.
>
> The last thing we need is more duplication.
>
> In case anyone wants to start this based on ppc I'd gladfully help
> to test this on pmac (32 and 64bit) and cell (64 bit).
Thanks for the vote of sanity Christoph.
I'm happy to test on sparc64 of course too :-)
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