Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] PCI / OF linkage in sysfs | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 05 Feb 2004 08:08:19 -0700 |
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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
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