Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Feb 2022 16:27:33 +0100 | Subject | Re: [RFC 10/10] net: sfp: add support for fwnode | From | Hans de Goede <> |
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Hi,
On 2/23/22 16:23, Andrew Lunn wrote: >> As Russell asked, I'm also really interested if someone has a solution >> to reuse device-tree description (overlays ?) to describe such >> hardware. However, the fact that CONFIG_OF isn't enabled on x86 config >> seems a bit complicated on this side. > > It does work, intel even used it for one of there tiny x86 SoCs. Maybe > it was Newton?
IIRC those SoCs did not use standard EFI/ACPI though, but rather some other special firmware, I think it was SFI ? This is not so much about the CPU architecture as it is about the firmware/bootloader <-> OS interface.
Note I'm not saying this can not be done with EFI/ACPI systems, but I think it has never been tried.
Regards,
Hans
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