[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Add pointer to device tree to LinuxBIOS table

Jens Freimann jens at freimann.org
Tue Sep 25 22:35:08 CEST 2007


Am Dienstag, den 25.09.2007, 12:17 +0200 schrieb Stefan Reinauer:
> * Jens Freimann <jens at freimann.org> [070911 23:30]:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > this patch adds a pointer to the LinuxBIOS table which points to the
> > root device. I use it to access the LB device tree from Open Firmware.
> > 
> > There is one patch for v2 and another one for v3.
>  
> One question: How can we prevent the memory from being overwritten? 
> I think the device tree area also has to be marked reserved in the
> memory entries.

Good question. That's the problem I have with v2, where the device tree
area is overwritten while on v3 it (coincidentally?) isn't. 


Jens





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