[PROPOSAL] enhanced table dumping

[Greg Watson]

On Jan 18, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Greg Watson <gwatson at lanl.gov> writes:
>
>> On Jan 18, 2005, at 4:51 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> The only issue really is what format to use for serialization. I'm 
>> leaning
>> towards s-expressions for use with openbios. However, it's 
>> conceivable that
>> different serialzation methods could be provided for different 
>> payloads, though
>> probably not desirable.
>
> Please note this problem has to pieces.  Which information should we 
> represent
> and how should we represent it.
>
> Devices on a motherboard are not necessarily connect as a tree.  I 
> have never
> seen a tree structured schematic :)  So the actual layout of the data 
> is to some
> extent secondary to the data structures we will use to represent that 
> data.
>
> So we need to drill down on that part as to how we represent logical 
> devices
> and how we represent the logical connections between them.
>
> Eric
>

An arbitrary graph seems to be adding additional complexity that we 
don't really need. Do you have an example of where a tree won't 
actually suffice?

The nice thing about s-expressions is that it deals with both the 
structure and representation.

Greg