On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:57:36PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On 08/14/2013 08:37 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, Tom Rini wrote:
[snip]
> Well, the hard guideline should require that the DTB be updateable and 
> not linked with nor generated by the bootloader or firmware.  That 
> implies some storage separate from the bootloader but this doesn't need 
> to be a filesystem.

Wait, what!?

Much as I think a bunch of the current problems have been caused by
being overly keen to push the dtb into firmware, we shouldn't *ban*
the original Open Firmware model of the device tree, where it is
generated by the firmware and consumed by the OS.

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