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

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, Richard Cochran wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 04:19:56PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > 
> > While I agree that many of these screwups shouldn't have happened in the
> > first place, it's nothing that we were prepared for two years ago. At
> > some point everyone agreed that DT was the way forward, so DT is what we
> > did. Nobody said anything about stable ABI back then, so nobody cared.
> 
> The idea of a device tree has not changed. I guess the arm crowd
> jumped on the DT bandwagon with no clue what it was about.

No no no.  The ARM crowd _resisted_ the introduction of DT but the 
PowerPC refugees convinced us this was a good idea and that it would 
solve most of our problems.

DT did solve some problems indeed.  But it brought new ones with it.


Nicolas