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Date:	Thu, 28 May 2009 21:11:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	benh@...nel.crashing.org
Cc:	wmb@...mworks.com, grant.likely@...retlab.ca, dbaryshkov@...il.com,
	devicetree-discuss@...abs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Device Tree on ARM platform

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 13:52:16 +1000

> But it comes with some drawbacks too... too often, this stuff will
> replace good documentation, the scripts provided by the FW will be
> busted in subtle ways that the kernel will have to work around, and thus
> it can be used as a way to avoid documenting or open sourcing things and
> obfuscating operations.

We'll have all of the down sides of ACPI if we start doing stuff
like this.

Keep FCODE execution in the firmware itself, thanks.
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