Open Firmware use on OLPC.

Andres Salomon dilinger at debian.org
Fri Oct 13 14:57:57 EDT 2006


On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 12:34 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
[...]
> 
> I think that we, as a group, should now go to the Linux kernel guys and 
> ask them to please, pretty please, put OFW parsing into the PC side of 
> the house -- it's in the PPC and Sun side, has been for years, no reason 
> not to have it in the PC side. Stefan and I have asked for this from 
> time to time for some years now, and always got the rejection; but now, 
> 10M OLPCs can't be wrong! I think we might get there this time.

Has anyone ported the (linux kernel) prom cif stuff to i386 yet?  Is it
(and the rest of the 1275 prom code) a matter of getting already written
code included, or does code still need to be written?




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