From: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
x86@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
hpa@zytor.com, cjb@laptop.org, Mitch Bradley <wmb@laptop.org>,
pgf@laptop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
davem@davemloft.net,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] sparc: break out some prom device-tree building code out into drivers/of
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:36:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100629193618.5a840b8e@dev.queued.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinPsrqxj5oQirEDRvVOuOeWgWSdljsMRbw8wn8V@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:42:54 -0600
Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
> wrote:
[...]
>
> > Sparc and OLPC have very similar
> > mechanisms for getting device tree info from OFW, so it makes sense
> > to share code between them.
>
> Other than the flattened tree step; is the powerpc method dissimilar
> from the Sparc and OLPC method for talking to OFW? (This is not a
> rhetorical question, I'm want to know if I'm missing some details).
> The main difference I know about is that OFW can still kept alive at
> runtime for sparc, which powerpc does not do. However, keeping OFW
> callable is a separate issue from how to extract the device tree.
>
After having a look at powerpc's flatten_device_tree, I don't see any
obvious reason why OLPC couldn't use this (though it still strikes me
as weird to go from prom->fdt->dt when the option of prom->dt is
available and less complex). Do you already have the patches that put
this into drivers/of/?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-29 23:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-29 1:54 [PATCH 0/4] RFC: OLPC/x86 device tree code Andres Salomon
2010-06-29 2:00 ` [PATCH 1/4] x86: OLPC: constify an olpc_ofw() arg Andres Salomon
2010-07-31 1:10 ` [tip:x86/olpc] x86, olpc: Constify " tip-bot for Andres Salomon
2010-06-29 2:00 ` [PATCH 2/4] sparc: break out some prom device-tree building code out into drivers/of Andres Salomon
2010-06-29 3:11 ` David Miller
2010-06-29 6:15 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-06-29 7:50 ` Grant Likely
2010-06-29 15:03 ` Andres Salomon
2010-06-29 21:42 ` Grant Likely
2010-06-29 23:36 ` Andres Salomon [this message]
2010-06-30 21:52 ` Grant Likely
2010-07-07 4:07 ` Andres Salomon
2010-07-06 2:22 ` David Miller
2010-07-06 7:00 ` Grant Likely
2010-07-06 7:16 ` David Miller
2010-07-06 8:17 ` Grant Likely
2010-07-07 5:15 ` Andres Salomon
2010-07-06 10:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-07-06 8:17 ` Grant Likely
2010-07-06 9:21 ` Grant Likely
2010-07-06 21:54 ` Andres Salomon
2010-07-06 22:06 ` Grant Likely
2010-07-07 1:15 ` Andres Salomon
2010-06-29 2:00 ` [PATCH 3/4] proc: unify PROC_DEVICETREE config Andres Salomon
2010-06-29 7:33 ` Grant Likely
2010-06-29 2:00 ` [PATCH 4/4] x86: OLPC: add OLPC device-tree support Andres Salomon
2010-06-29 8:12 ` Grant Likely
2010-06-29 8:33 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-06-29 14:23 ` Andres Salomon
2010-06-30 21:13 ` Grant Likely
2010-06-30 21:32 ` Andres Salomon
2010-08-30 3:51 ` [PATCH 0/9] " Andres Salomon
2010-08-30 3:53 ` [PATCH 1/9] of: move phandle/ihandle into types.h Andres Salomon
2010-08-30 5:06 ` Sam Ravnborg
2010-09-03 8:17 ` Andres Salomon
2010-09-05 6:22 ` Sam Ravnborg
2010-08-30 3:55 ` [PATCH 2/9] sparc: convert various prom_* functions to use phandle Andres Salomon
2010-08-30 3:57 ` [PATCH 3/9] sparc: break out some PROM device-tree building code out into drivers/of Andres Salomon
2010-08-30 3:59 ` [PATCH 4/9] sparc: make drivers/of/pdt.c no longer sparc-only Andres Salomon
2010-08-30 4:00 ` [PATCH 5/9] of: no longer call prom_ functions directly; use an ops structure Andres Salomon
2010-08-30 4:02 ` [PATCH 6/9] of: add of_pdt namespace to pdt code Andres Salomon
2010-08-30 4:04 ` [PATCH 7/9] of: add package-to-path support to pdt Andres Salomon
2010-08-30 4:06 ` [PATCH 8/9] x86: of: irq additions to make drivers/of/* build on x86 Andres Salomon
2010-08-30 15:58 ` Stephen Neuendorffer
2010-08-30 17:31 ` Grant Likely
2010-08-30 4:07 ` [PATCH 9/9] x86: OLPC: add OLPC device-tree support Andres Salomon
2010-08-30 18:14 ` Grant Likely
2010-08-30 18:49 ` Andres Salomon
2010-08-31 5:49 ` Grant Likely
2010-08-30 17:58 ` [PATCH 0/9] " Grant Likely
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