[TUHS] the device tree, hardware, and kernels.
Al Kossow via TUHS
tuhs at tuhs.org
Tue Apr 7 07:11:37 AEST 2026
On 4/6/26 2:09 PM, Al Kossow via TUHS wrote:
> On 4/6/26 2:02 PM, ron minnich via TUHS wrote:
>
>> Was the device tree a Mitch Bradley thing?
>>
>
> yes. Sun's Open Firmware was first
Apple adopted PCI assuming that card vendors would include OF along
with PC BIOS. Unfortunately that rarely happened. It ended up that
only cards required during boot ended up with OF in rom.
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