Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem

[Segher Boessenkool]

> In addition, I haven't given on the idea one day of actually merging 
> the
> powerpc and sparc implementation of a lot of that stuff. Mostly the
> device-tree accessors proper, the of_device/of_platform bits etc... 
> into
> something like drivers/of1394 maybe.

1394?  :-)

> Thus if i386 is going to have a device-tree, please use the same
> interfaces.

Such a hypothetical "converged" interface would not be
identical to either the current SPARC or the PowerPC
code, nor just a mix of those two.  It's a great plan
to try to get to this eventually, but it will take time.
A lot of it perhaps.


Segher

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