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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 21:36:08 -0600
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Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Device Tree on ARM platform
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On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:57 PM, David Gibson
<david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> Grant mentions the Xilinx devices as an example - they're interesting
> because of the fancy stuff they're doing, autogenerating the devtree
> from the FPGA configuration.  But to me the real indicator of the
> device tree's value is the handful of platforms for which support has
> been added with *only* a new dts - a single, fairly simple text file.

Yes, exactly!  Even with the .dtb blob linked into the kernel image
this has been a huge win in simplicity.

g.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.