On 3 April 2011 21:44, Andy Green andy@warmcat.com wrote:
On 04/03/2011 05:05 PM, Somebody in the thread at some point said:
Above everything else, I definitely like to see DT get done first, it's essential for SoC these days.
All I am suggesting is bind the DTs in the kernel. That's easier and faster than the alternatives and there is a lot less to go wrong and make DT a difficult experience for users.
I second.
Without doubt some mechanism to pass board configuration data to the kernel is desirable .... recent issue of being able to pass smsc95xxs's missing mac addr to kernel is one such use. Rather we just might be able to do away with the EEPROMs for such purposes (?) At the same time, Linux shouldn't depend on support from bootloaders much more than is currently provided. Otherwise what do we say... ARM Linux needs, say, U-Boot to run ? And let us count upon neither the number of bootloaders in existence nor the ease of making them support DT.
So far Nicholas' idea of appending config data to kernel image sounds good or may be a simplified version of DT that doesn't go deeper than board files.