devicetree in arm

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Thu Mar 18 09:23:59 EDT 2010


On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 07:14:05AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> ARM device tree support is very much in flux, and that particular
> branch gets rebased a lot as device tree code from Sparc, Microblaze
> and Powerpc is merged into drivers/of.  I may have ended up pushing
> out to test-devicetree without the ARM patches applied.  I'll look at
> it today, make sure the ARM stuff is all there, and then push it out
> again.
> 
> Note however that this is only very basic support.  It doesn't yet
> have the code needed to register devices and drivers from device tree
> data.  That will be coming real-soon-now.

Is someone going to do a device tree example port to a 'real' platform
rather than simple the ARM evaluation boards?

As I've said previously, I'm not going to accept device tree stuff until
I see a working implementation on a set of real platforms.



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