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From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Porting plan9
Date: Mon,  1 Dec 2014 18:42:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141202024223.31A5BB827@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Dec 2014 15:54:36 CST." <CAGGHmKH7yDkQF08YLshbnkh9UVoi7T4S7uZ2VKbK3763zdVzXw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 01 Dec 2014 15:54:36 CST Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> FWIW, u-boot is not a net-negative at all. For SoC's it simplifies
> boot significantly - there is zero reason to eschew the functionality
> it brings.

Do you think it is worth adding support for "flattened device
tree" (a data structure that describes system hardware)?  IIRC
uboot already supports FDT.  Supposedly FDT reduces the
porting effort and more than one system may even be able to
use the same kernel (but with a different FDT).



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-12-02  2:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-01  5:14 Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2014-12-01  5:44 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-01  8:43   ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2014-12-01 14:13     ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-01 21:54     ` Steven Stallion
2014-12-02  0:30       ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2014-12-02  0:56       ` Kurt H Maier
2014-12-02  2:16         ` Steven Stallion
2014-12-02  2:23           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-12-02  4:03           ` Kurt H Maier
2014-12-02  4:05             ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-02  4:19               ` Kurt H Maier
2014-12-02  4:23                 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-02  2:42       ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2014-12-02  3:31         ` Steven Stallion
2014-12-02  2:43       ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-02  9:32         ` Richard Miller
2014-12-02 10:12           ` Jens Staal
2014-12-02 10:48             ` mischief
2014-12-02 10:54               ` mischief
2014-12-02 14:10           ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-02 15:21             ` Steven Stallion
2014-12-02 21:57               ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-12-02 22:02                 ` Iruatã Souza
2014-12-02 22:28                   ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-12-02 22:55                     ` Iruatã Souza
2014-12-03  0:20                     ` yoann padioleau
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-24  1:17 [9fans] porting plan9 forsyth
2002-01-24 19:13 ` Michael Grunditz
2002-01-24  0:45 jmk
2002-01-23 23:58 Michael Grunditz
2002-01-23 23:06 anothy

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