Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Segher Boessenkool <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem | | Date | Tue, 2 Jan 2007 12:45:23 +0100 |
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> 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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