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

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Message-ID: <fa686aa40905272036ueb35e6do86160788ab7c7d8a@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 May 2009 21:36:08 -0600
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@...gutronix.de>,
	Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com>,
	devicetree-discuss <devicetree-discuss@...abs.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>,
	Janboe Ye <yuan-bo.ye@...orola.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk, rmk@....linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Device Tree on ARM platform

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:57 PM, David Gibson
<david@...son.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> Grant mentions the Xilinx devices as an example - they're interesting
> because of the fancy stuff they're doing, autogenerating the devtree
> from the FPGA configuration.  But to me the real indicator of the
> device tree's value is the handful of platforms for which support has
> been added with *only* a new dts - a single, fairly simple text file.

Yes, exactly!  Even with the .dtb blob linked into the kernel image
this has been a huge win in simplicity.

g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
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