[RFC] [PATCH] Device Tree on ARM platform

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Thu May 28 13:36:08 EST 2009


On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:57 PM, David Gibson
<david at gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> Grant mentions the Xilinx devices as an example - they're interesting
> because of the fancy stuff they're doing, autogenerating the devtree
> from the FPGA configuration.  But to me the real indicator of the
> device tree's value is the handful of platforms for which support has
> been added with *only* a new dts - a single, fairly simple text file.

Yes, exactly!  Even with the .dtb blob linked into the kernel image
this has been a huge win in simplicity.

g.

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



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