From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935186AbdBQV4Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Feb 2017 16:56:24 -0500 Received: from customer-85-204-195-167.ip4.gigabit.dk ([85.204.195.167]:40055 "EHLO customer-2a00-7660-0ca7-0000-0000-0000-0000-0b1b.ip6.gigabit.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934956AbdBQV4W (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Feb 2017 16:56:22 -0500 Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 22:56:11 +0100 From: Rask Ingemann Lambertsen To: Maxime Ripard Cc: Emil Velikov , Mark Rutland , Thomas Petazzoni , devicetree , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel , ML dri-devel , linux-mm@kvack.org, Tobias Jakobi , Chen-Yu Tsai , Rob Herring , LAKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] ARM: sun8i: a33: Mali improvements Message-ID: <20170217215611.2ft4rpnukbijcgqn@localhost> References: <10fd28cb-269a-ec38-ecfb-b7c86be3e716@math.uni-bielefeld.de> <20170217154419.xr4n2ikp4li3c7co@lukather> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170217154419.xr4n2ikp4li3c7co@lukather> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20161104 (1.7.1) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 04:44:19PM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote: [...] > We already have DT bindings for out of tree drivers, there's really > nothing new here. We have DT bindings for *hardware*, not for drivers. As stated in Documentation/devicetree/usage-model.txt: "The "Open Firmware Device Tree", or simply Device Tree (DT), is a data structure and language for describing hardware. More specifically, it is a description of hardware that is readable by an operating system so that the operating system doesn't need to hard code details of the machine." "2.1 High Level View ------------------- The most important thing to understand is that the DT is simply a data structure that describes the hardware." -- Rask Ingemann Lambertsen