On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 21:06 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > In a perfect world, we would need neither the device tree nor > any platform data at all, because we'd be able to ask the hardware > or the fictionary correct firmware about what the properties > of the hardware are. This works to a surprisingly large extent > on server hardware, but much less so on typical embedded systems.
Properties of the HW per-se but also binding information, ie, what is connected to what outside of the main bus path (think clock/power control etc...). Even server / desktop is affected here, and nobody sane thinks ACPI is a -good- solution here tho it works mostly on x86 :-) Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ devicetree-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/devicetree-discuss
