From: Tomi Valkeinen <tomba@iki.fi>
To: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [pull] tilcdc-next for 3.9
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:40:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5122212C.4070808@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF6AEGuqw=6wt4M2YsePP0dxUaMRMKzZmjYtVAMUD5_1ZDESsg@mail.gmail.com>
On 2013-02-18 14:35, Rob Clark wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Tomi Valkeinen <tomba@iki.fi> wrote:
>> On 2013-02-18 14:26, Rob Clark wrote:
>>
>>> So I'm not going to get too hung up on supporting current DT bindings
>>> in the future when we have something better. But I needed something
>>
>> I may be mistaken, but my understanding is that DT bindings are like
>> kernel's userspace APIs. After they have been merged, they have to work
>> in the future kernels also.
>
> and that probably *eventually* makes sense when dts files are kicked
> out of the kernel. For now, it doesn't really seem useful, unlike
> maintaining compatibility for userspace ABI's.
Why does that matter? Afaik, the dts files are in the kernel for
convenience, and as examples. You can as well have the DT data in your
bootloader.
Or has there been a clear decision that while the dts files are in the
kernel, they are considered unstable?
Tomi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-18 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-17 23:02 [pull] tilcdc-next for 3.9 Rob Clark
2013-02-18 9:02 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2013-02-18 10:03 ` Daniel Vetter
2013-02-18 10:16 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2013-02-18 16:49 ` Daniel Vetter
2013-02-18 12:32 ` Rob Clark
2013-02-18 12:26 ` Rob Clark
2013-02-18 12:32 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2013-02-18 12:35 ` Rob Clark
2013-02-18 12:40 ` Tomi Valkeinen [this message]
2013-02-18 14:46 ` Rob Clark
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