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

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Mon Oct 21 16:24:20 EDT 2013


On 10/21/2013 06:07 PM, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:15:56AM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
>>
>> Right now, we're taking away much of that flexibility and I see progress
>> on ARM actively hindered.
> 
> Baloney.
> 
> No one is taking away your flexibility or hindering progress. It is
> really very simple. Just make an arm-dt-devel tree where you can both
> change the bindings at will and recommend to people. Once bindings
> have seen some real world testing and have had time to mature, then
> request a merge into mainline.

Thierry already has working patches for LCD support, and the "request
[for] a merge into mainline" is just "send the patch to be applied to
mainline", which he did, and was blocked on, because of the potential
existance of CDF if the future.




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