Dear Grant Likely, In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > > Personally, I attribute a lot of that in powerpc land to the fact that > we had no clue what we were doing when we started the process of > porting all powerpc platforms to use the device tree. It was hard. > It was painful. We didn't have much established convention to learn > from. However, now that it is complete I would say that it has been a > net-win and it is now simpler to bring up new boards and SoCs than it > ever was before.
True. From a commercial point of view this is a huge problem casued by the device tree - custumers who used to oder a BSP from commercial service providers (like Robert or me :-) now often find that all they need to do is to tweak the device tree to get their system running. Lost business. D*mn... [Maybe this explains Robert's reluctance?] But as stated before: from the engineering point of view it's a real big win now. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] Ever try. Ever fail. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. -- S. Beckett _______________________________________________ devicetree-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/devicetree-discuss
