[RFC] Multiboot2 drafting

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <4BECEE31.3060004 at gmail.com>
>             Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder at gmail.com> writes:
> : Yes and No. multiboot2 describes some aspects of the host system
> : hardware but I've never heard of device trees outside of IEEE1275 or
> : xnu, where it's probably a historical leftover.
>
> It is far from a historical left-over.
I meant the only xnu on i386. It receives a device tree from bootloader
but on most platforms it's either empty or ignored
>   Linux critically depends on
> the boot loader on PowerPC to provide it with a tree of devices that
> it cannot otherwise probe.  On other architectures, it is becoming an
> optional way to specify the device tree as well.  There are many
> different implementations of this, since primarily it is just data and
> boot loaders are good at providing binary blobs to the kernel...
>   
Could we come up with a standard of passing this information in multiboot2?
> In addition, Rafal Jawarski has ported this technology to FreeBSD.
> He's presenting a paper on it today at BSDcan:
> 	http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/schedule/events/171.en.html
> I've reviewed the work, and it goes a long way towards making some of
> the more stupid and repetitive parts of doing a port to a new embedded
> architecture easy.
>
> Warner
>   


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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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