[PATCH v2] 8xx: Add support for the MPC852 based board from keymile.
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Wed Mar 19 03:19:57 EST 2008
Dear Scott,
in message <20080318151132.GA17402 at ld0162-tx32.am.freescale.net> you wrote:
>
> Well, the device tree is a mechanism for communicating from the firmware
> to the kernel, and if we could control the firmware better we'd just make
> it set the pins properly to begin with. :-)
Is this just a comment, or do you oppose Heiko's suggestion?
Other uses of the device tree seem possible and reasonable, too. For
example, we can use the device tree to configure the firmware (U-Boot
in this case).
Using the device tree to describe the pin configuration of the
hardware sounds easier to me than hard-coding it in some source (or
header) file - no matter if this is in the kernel and/or in the
firmware.
What do you think?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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