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Hey all,
So as distros we are soon going to be forced to support DTB files. Fedora likely sooner than the rest as we closely follow the mainline kernel throughout the life of a fedora release. Ideally the device manufacturers will provide dtb files. but then devices like the pandaboard, beagleboardXM etc with no storage to speak of we have to ship u-boot so likely will need to ship dtb files also. so far the best vendor i know of for dtb support is calxeda. and thats where we should encourage vendors to emulate, but until we get to there we need to take baby steps.
I was wondering what the distros were planning to do, or has it even been considered? Fedora 18 will likely ship 3.6.x but will be updated to 3.7.1 likely and also 3.8.x if not 3.9.x We get the joy of things breaking every kernel release because no one else seems to be testing or using the upstream kernel.
I would like to see us as distros and linaro go to the vendors and get them to ship dtb files and updated u-boot with dtb support. Ideally with some consistent macro use to make distro support of u-boot saner. appended dtb is pretty ugly and I do not want to support it. I feel like we have an opportunity here to correct some of the wrongs of the past as u-boot updates will be forced on the world to deal with the forced move to DeviceTree. do we have vendors on this list? if not can we get the list of contacts and reach out to them to get things straightened up?
Dennis