On Feb 19, 2006, at 5:12 PM, Peter Seebach wrote:

> The "board_info" feature should be promoted to be a kernel feature,  
> not tied
> so closely to openbios.

No, it shouldn't.  device properties are the way to handle this.   
board_info only serves to propagate platform-dependencies to the rest  
of the kernel, which is not what we want.

> BTW, if the answer is "we already have this, why aren't you using  
> it", I'd
> love to hear it.  :)

"We already have this, why aren't you using it?"

-- thorpej