Re: [PATCH] raid6: altivec support

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2005, at 9:08 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > The binary structure which changes every few weeks and which is shared
> >  > between the bootloader and the kernel? Yeah, "somewhat broken" is one
> > > way of putting it :)
> >  >
> > > The ARM kernel does it a lot better with tag,value pairs.
> > 
> > As does m68k... That's why we never got beyond bootinfo major version 2.
> 
> Out of interest, on ARM & m68k I would assume that the list of tag's gets
> added to over time?

That's true. But besides the recent conversion of the HP9000/[34]00 code to
use bootinfo, not much has changed during the last 5 years.

If a tag is not recognized, it's just ignored. That means your new feature
cannot be used by the kernel, but it doesn't break the bootloader<->kernel
interface the hard way.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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