David Woodhouse wrote:
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> 
>> However, until we clean up the promfs stuff, there's no chance of getting
>> an OFW device tree upstream.
> 
> I see no reason why we shouldn't be able to create a 'flattened'
> device-tree during early boot, like the PowerPC kernel does. And use it
> thereafter, having quiesced OpenFirmware. Haven't we already been
> working on unifying this between SPARC and PowerPC kernels?
> 
> I definitely don't think we need to play these tricks to keep
> OpenFirmware resident while the kernel is running. Take a look at your
> second patch -- it's _all_ just lookups in the device-tree, and you're
> inventing a new way to do it instead of using the existing one.
> 

If so, would this apply to OLPC as well?

	-hpa
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