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Message-ID: <20090528101339.GV6805@pengutronix.de>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 12:13:40 +0200
From: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@...gutronix.de>
To: Wolfgang Denk <wd@...x.de>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@...gutronix.de>,
Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com>,
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
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:51:26AM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> True. From a commercial point of view this is a huge problem casued
> by the device tree - custumers who used to oder a BSP from commercial
> service providers (like Robert or me :-) now often find that all they
> need to do is to tweak the device tree to get their system running.
> Lost business. D*mn... [Maybe this explains Robert's reluctance?]
Wolfgang, you know me long enough to realize that this argument is
*crap*.
Talking about business cases, it has turned out to be extremely
difficult to explain customers that the effort for the actual
functionality is only a little percentage of the work necessary to do
the oftree stuff right. The functionality has often worked after a few
hours, and until all oftrees have been solved, it often takes weeks.
In result, this has already led to customers concluding that
- mainline is not worth the effort
- linux is overkill and one should better use cortex-bare-metal
However, that is only our personal observation.
rsc
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