From: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
To: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/11] Add MPC8360EMDS board support
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:28:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4523EF39.50107@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2867EA41-5135-43F7-9873-044C617EAC1B@embeddedalley.com>
Dan Malek wrote:
> I'm not against using the device tree (or platform data
> or #defines) when it's appropriate to do so. I think our
> obsession to represent everything there is what is
> creating the complexity. If a #define in a board
> specific port file makes sense, then just do that,
> even if it is a BSCR address. The device tree just
> seems like the new toy that everyone wants to play
> with, and we are forgetting that the old fashioned way
> of just writing some C code may be the way
> to implement what we need.
I'd like to "second" a lot of what Dan is saying.
Linux increasingly drifts away from simple, adequate
solutions (that admittedly require a bit of embedded
developer elbow grease), towards these types of
"grand unification" schemes, which actually interfere
with goals in the embedded space.
=============================
Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Electronics
=============================
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-04 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-21 12:20 [PATCH 10/11] Add MPC8360EMDS board support Li Yang
2006-09-27 6:39 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-09-27 11:56 ` Vitaly Bordug
2006-09-27 12:02 ` Li Yang-r58472
2006-09-27 12:55 ` Vitaly Bordug
2006-09-27 13:09 ` Ben Warren
2006-09-27 13:20 ` Li Yang-r58472
2006-09-27 13:33 ` Kumar Gala
2006-09-28 6:12 ` Li Yang-r58472
2006-09-30 0:49 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-09-27 14:14 ` Jon Loeliger
2006-09-28 6:38 ` Li Yang-r58472
2006-09-27 14:42 ` Dan Malek
2006-09-27 16:22 ` Olof Johansson
2006-09-28 4:10 ` Dan Malek
2006-09-30 15:56 ` Li Yang
2006-10-04 0:40 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-10-04 13:53 ` Dan Malek
2006-10-04 17:28 ` Tim Bird [this message]
2006-10-05 0:27 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-10-05 6:29 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-10-04 6:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-04 14:48 ` Dan Malek
2006-10-04 23:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-05 0:03 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-10-05 0:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-05 0:16 ` Vitaly Bordug
2006-10-05 6:21 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-10-05 6:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-05 6:31 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-10-05 6:33 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-10-05 6:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-04 5:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-04 14:57 ` Dan Malek
2006-10-04 16:05 ` Jerry Van Baren
2006-09-27 14:57 ` Sergei Shtylyov
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2006-09-27 13:54 Joakim Tjernlund
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