linux-kernel - Re: [sodaville] [PATCH 02/11] x86: Add device tree support

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Date:	Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:10:56 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
CC:	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sodaville@...utronix.de,
	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [sodaville] [PATCH 02/11] x86: Add device tree support

On 01/03/2011 10:06 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> The problem with that kind of boot wrapper is that they are
> per-architecture, increasing the differences between architectures
> needlessly, and they are often implemented very poorly.
> 
> As such, it's nice to have an ultimate fallback that doesn't depend on
> anything outside ours -- the kernel community's -- control.
> 

In the case of x86, it's not just per architecture but actually per
platform interface, which is what aggravates the situation additionally.
 Unfortunately a lot of embedded x86 vendors seem extremely busy
recreating all the mistakes embedded developers on other platforms have
ever made, because "it's what they know"...

	-hpa
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