Messages in this thread | | | From | Kumar Gala <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] raid6: altivec support | Date | Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:54:49 -0600 |
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On Jan 19, 2005, at 8:48 AM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 08:45 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote: > > We did talk about looking at using some work Ben did in ppc64 with > OF > > in ppc32. John Masters was looking into this, but I havent heard > much > > from him on it lately. > > > > The firmware interface on the ppc32 embedded side is some what broken > > in my mind. > > 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.
The funny thing is that one of the variants on ppc32 supports tag, value pairs
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