Ben,
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
Here's the very first draft of my HOWTO about booting the linux/ppc64 kernel without open firmware. It's still incomplete, the main chapter
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ One could argue whether the full-blown emulation of an OF device tree may really be called this.... ;-)
b) Direct entry with a flattened device-tree block. This entry point is called by a) after the OF trampoline and can also be called directly by a bootloader that does not support the Open Firmware client interface. It is also used by "kexec" to
For OF based systems, what you outline definitely makes an awful lot of sense.
For others I wonder what the costs of this are in terms of the memory footprint (both RAM and ROM). Are there reference implementations in existence?
Regards, Marius