New fsl device bindings file

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Mon Jul 7 11:45:51 EST 2008


On Jul 6, 2008, at 8:39 PM, David Gibson wrote:

> Well... they may be Linux specific by default, but they're supposed to
> be general enough that they (or at least, very small extensions)
> *could* become official OF bindings, if there was still an OF group to
> make them so.  It certainly should be possible to use these bindings
> in a firmware which provides an OF client interface as well as in
> flat-tree-only firmwares which don't.

Right, it's a classic case of embrace and extend. Calling it OF is  
just plain misleading, especially since the original document was  
called booting _WITHOUT_ OF.


-Olof



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