Re: [PATCH 2/4] sparc: break out some prom device-tree buildingcode out into drivers/of

From: Andres Salomon
Date: Mon Jul 05 2010 - 23:25:03 EST


On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:22:21 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Andres Salomon <dilinger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 04:07:34 +0000
>
> > - For the pdt, calling into the prom once for each property/node to
> > create a fdt, and then unflattening it. This is better than the
> > previous option, but I don't think the prom->fdt code will be
> > very nice.
>
> I'll need this on sparc64 at some point to support kexec() anyways.
>
> So at least for sparc you can assume that a something-->fdt translator
> is going to exist at some point in the future regardless of what
> happens here.
>


Sounds like we have a winner. I'll concentrate on that, thanks for
the heads up.
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