linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Device Tree on ARM platform

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Date:	Wed, 27 May 2009 18:58:24 -0500
From:	Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com>
To:	Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@...gutronix.de>
CC:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	devicetree-discuss <devicetree-discuss@...abs.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk,
	Janboe Ye <yuan-bo.ye@...orola.com>,
	Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>, rmk@....linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Device Tree on ARM platform

Robert Schwebel wrote:
> The oftree by design wants to be a complete hardware description. As you
> mention above, there are cases where you *nevertheless* need ad-hoc
> information about things *not* encoded into the device tree.
> 
> This renders the whole concept ad absurdum. You need a machine number
> again - and if you need that: why not stay with the ARM model, define
> everything with platform data and avoid the whole thing?

Because it's better to have a little platform specific code than a lot 
of it?

-Scott
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