Messages in this thread | | | From | Kumar Gala <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] raid6: altivec support | Date | Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:15:23 -0600 |
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On Jan 19, 2005, at 9:08 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, 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. > > 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?
- kumar
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