[Ksummit-2013-discuss] ARM topic: Is DT on ARM the solution, or is there something better?

[Guenter Roeck]

On 11/01/2013 03:36 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 08:18:53AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:07:16PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
>> [ ... ]
>>>>
>>>> Was this just a matter of enabling OF on this platform, or do you have an
>>>> out-of-tree set of patches ? If the latter, is it available somewhere
>>>> to look at (including the complete devicetree from your above example) ?
>>>
>>> It was mostly a matter of enabling OF and writing the device tree. Most
>>> of the generic kernel code changes I even got merged, but there were a
>>> few patches that I never got around to merge. Some weren't anywhere
>>> close to a mergeable state either.
>>>
>>> I no longer work for the company and don't have access to the patches.
>>> But I can ping a few people and see if I can dig up something for you.
>>>
>> That would be great.
>
> Hi Guenter,
>
> It took some time, but here's the tree:
>
> 	https://github.com/avionic-design/linux/commits/medatom/master
>
> The device tree files are in arch/x86/boot/dts (as expected I guess). A
> linux-next from over a year ago was used as the base for that branch, so
> some of that will be stale, but DT is a stable ABI, so that should still
> be valid. =)
>
> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Although I have
> not been working on that for a while, so my memories about it aren't all
> that fresh anymore.
>
> Thierry
>
Hi Thierry,

that is great - thanks a lot!

Guenter