[OpenBIOS] [PATCH 0/4] Changes for MorphOS

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 08/03/14 01:32, Tarl Neustaedter wrote:

> On 2014-Mar-7, 20:26 , BALATON Zoltan wrote:
>> [...]
>> 2. Change the device device name in
>> openbios-devel/forth/device/tree.fs to device-tree
>> Not sure what was the consensus of the review for this one.
>
> I missed the reason you wanted the name changed; I commented at the time
> that for IEEE 1275, the name property at the root node is supposed to be
> the platform name. Why do you want it called "device-tree", which would
> certainly be incorrect?

Believe it or not, it's actually what Apple use for the device name for 
the root node of their OF device trees: see 
http://web.archive.org/web/20090107145016/http://penguinppc.org/historical/dev-trees-html/g4_agp_400_1.html#. 
for an example.

Although I would also argue that using this method to detect the 
platform being used is a fairly brain-dead client behaviour too...


ATB,

Mark.