On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Erik E. Fair wrote:

> Just as a point of information: the boot firmware is reasonably smart, so you 
> can abbreviate the path by omitting the address specifcation when there is 
> only one of a given device, e.g. instead of
>
> /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@4,8400000/esp@4,8800000/sd@3,0:h
>
> you could use:
>
> /iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/sd@3,0:h
>
> so long as your Sun only has one iommu, one sbus, one espdma on the sbus, 
> etc. You only need the address information when you need to distinguish 
> between two or more of a given device, at a given point in the path.

Er, sorry for being an ignoramus, where is that line encoded? In my
prom?

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