On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Lennart Sorensen <[email protected]> wrote:
> There is no need to do things 500 different ways. lennart: you've fundamentally misinformed of the reality of the ARM hardware development world. there are over 600 ARM licensees, world-wide. automatically therefore you're above the threshold number that you arbitrarily picked. additionally, each hardware device that uses any one of the products created by any one of those 600+ licensees *will*, by the very nature of that hardware design having hard-wired interfaces, be completely and utterly different from any other device. GPIO20 for example could be used to power on a WIFI module on one device, and could be disconnected or used via a multiplex option as an SD card's clock line. if you look at the xanadux source code (on sourceforge) when i was working on the reverse-engineering of HTC wince phones, we had *OVER 250* source code files added which covered i believe it was 9 new hardware platforms for the PXA25x and PXA27x series [before marvell bought the intel pxa architecture] russell bless him asked us to flatten these out to a single directory. the number of files to be added was *double* that of the total existing number of files that had ever been contributed up until that point. even with 5 of us working and coordinating closely for about eighteen months on those 9 products, it was virtually impossible for us to generate any kind of significantly common code. all that devicetree has done is move the problem, as well as add a runtime overhead to the execution of resource-critical devices. not very clever, that. l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/capweedykpkuxwk11fz4wkdkufpco_2gmwrefg+rprusv+io...@mail.gmail.com
