The new DTS language enhancements

[Grant Likely]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> On Oct 1, 2008, at 2:37 PM, Jon Loeliger wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> We have had some internal discussion inside Freescale
>> about my proposed DTS language enhancements now.
>> We feel that we have significant need for this approach,
>> and in the absence of a solid alternate proposal,
>> we would like to move forward with it.
>
> I agree with Jon here... if people aren't going to have useful comments on
> what changes need to be made to Jon's work we'd (Freescale) like to see a
> dtc-2.0 with these changes and getting those changes into the kernel for
> 2.6.28.

Jon's changes are non-trivial and have long lasting implications.
First posting of the changes was made on Sept 23, just over a week
ago.  Jon told me about the new design only a month ago.  Not a lot of
time.

This is not the same as adding a new driver or supporting a new SoC.
The consequences have considerable broader reach.  Time must be
allowed for us to mull over the design.

Merging for 2.6.28 is too aggressive.

I appreciate that you're frustrated with the lack of alternate
proposals, but there hasn't been enough time yet.

g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.