On Tue, 22 Oct 2013, Peter Maydell wrote:

> On 22 October 2013 18:42, Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Having "stable" DT bindings is just a dream.  Experience so far is
> > showing that this is neither practical nor realistic.
> >
> > The unstructured free-for-all approach isn't good either.  Some
> > compromise between the two extremes needs to be found.
> 
> While I entirely agree that the concept of DT bindings as stable
> ABI is a complete pipe dream, it would be nice if we could have
> some suitably restricted parts of it that are defined as stable,
> for the benefit of tools like kvmtool and QEMU which construct
> device tree blobs from scratch to describe the virtual machine
> environment. (That means roughly CPUs, RAM, virtio-mmio
> devices and a UART at least.)

This subset is probably uncontroversial and easy.


Nicolas
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