From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI / OF linkage in sysfs
Date: 05 Feb 2004 08:08:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1llnhsgws.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0402041634440.2086@home.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> On some platforms, we might have multiple different entries (eg on a PC we
> might have pointers to ACPI data, to PnP data and to EFI data, all at the
> same time. I hope we never will, but maybe there would be reason for it).
> That would argue _against_ a "generic" name like "platform", and for
> something that is actually very much specific to the kind of data it
> points to (eg "of-data" rather than "platform-data").
And there is the possibility in the LinuxBIOS case that you can have
ACPI, EFI, OF and the native LinuxBIOS interfaces all on one box :)
The EFI side is the only piece we are in wait and see mode for at
the moment.
So it is seriously possible you get everything simultaneously.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-05 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-04 7:12 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-02-04 22:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-04 23:13 ` Greg KH
2004-02-04 23:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-02-04 23:39 ` Greg KH
2004-02-04 23:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-04 23:38 ` Greg KH
2004-02-04 23:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-02-05 0:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-05 0:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-02-05 0:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-05 0:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-02-05 15:08 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2004-02-04 23:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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