[PROPOSAL] enhanced table dumping

[Greg Watson]

On Jan 18, 2005, at 11:47 AM, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:

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>
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
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>> Those platforms rather offer an IEEE 1275-1994 interface (which is
>> binary+callback, all evil combined, but it is well proven)
>
> the consensus seems to be that we make the tree contain what we need, 
> and
> the last step is to generate tables from the tree. It sure makes sense 
> to
> me.
>
> We also know that we must generate mptable, irq table, and acpi (I just
> *love* the PC) since they all contain info that is overlapping, 
> somewhat
> different, and all needed.
>
> For callbacks, we let OpenBIOS handle that.
>
> I'd still like to see the code that does the s-expr generation but I'm 
> on
> enough other projects right now that my time is too tight. HELP!

I'd like to hear more about what Stefan had in mind for the 'small set 
of C functions'. Maybe the simplest way would be to pass the device 
tree itself to the payload? I guess it wouldn't solve the binary/ascii 
problem, but it would sure as hell make the code easy.

Greg