device trees.

[David Gibson]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:13:19PM -0400, David H. Lynch Jr. wrote:
> 
> 
>     Are we all using the same meaning of firmware ?
> 
>     While firmware == BIOS is the norm for PC's

Well, BIOS, or bootloader is what I'm meaning here.

>      atleast in the embedded FPGA space firmware could mean the FPGA
> programing that creates the hardware.
>     For an FPGA based system a dtb generated by the same software that
> created the "firmware" for the FPGA,
>     had better match the "hardware" exactly.  Literally welding the
> "firmware" to the dtb makes alot of sense.

Well, yes, but FPGA based systems are not *that* common.  And even in
this case the devtree will only match the "hardware" exactly if the
generator isn't buggy.  

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