From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Schwebel Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2009-discuss] Representing Embedded Architectures at the Kernel Summit Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 23:34:52 +0200 Message-ID: <20090602213452.GK32630@pengutronix.de> References: <1243956140.4229.25.camel@mulgrave.int.hansenpartnership.com> <20090602172941.GL3095@hansolo.jdub.homelinux.org> <1243964577.4229.49.camel@mulgrave.int.hansenpartnership.com> <20090602175244.GB10973@cuplxvomd02.corp.sa.net> <20090602185143.GA8655@zod.rchland.ibm.com> <4A257DF0.6040607@am.sony.com> <1243975064.6342.10.camel@mulgrave.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1243975064.6342.10.camel@mulgrave.site> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Tim Bird , Josh Boyer , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, ksummit-2009-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, David VomLehn List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 03:37:44PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > The topic of "flattened device tree" look interesting to me (perhaps > because I'm a hardened device driver person and things like that > always look interesting to me) ... The recent oftree activities look indeed very promising; the different boot-information-passing methods, mainly in powerpc and arm land, is IMHO and important field where a generic kernel infrastructure would make sense for the embedded people. Taken that oftree has created robustness and compatiblity problems in the past but seems to move into a good direction recently, feedback from core kernel developers would certainly be a good thing. > if we can get a few more like that out of the woodwork, this approach > might end up being successful. Could flickerfree-bootsplash be a topic? Or is that completely pushed into the userspace these fastboot days? rsc -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([92.198.50.35]:33860 "EHLO metis.ext.pengutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752523AbZFBVe7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:34:59 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 23:34:52 +0200 From: Robert Schwebel Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2009-discuss] Representing Embedded Architectures at the Kernel Summit Message-ID: <20090602213452.GK32630@pengutronix.de> References: <1243956140.4229.25.camel@mulgrave.int.hansenpartnership.com> <20090602172941.GL3095@hansolo.jdub.homelinux.org> <1243964577.4229.49.camel@mulgrave.int.hansenpartnership.com> <20090602175244.GB10973@cuplxvomd02.corp.sa.net> <20090602185143.GA8655@zod.rchland.ibm.com> <4A257DF0.6040607@am.sony.com> <1243975064.6342.10.camel@mulgrave.site> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1243975064.6342.10.camel@mulgrave.site> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: James Bottomley Cc: Tim Bird , Josh Boyer , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, ksummit-2009-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, David VomLehn Message-ID: <20090602213452.nXf_fqnoaljgGXKh6cqQufGBHXmLAh6pZq9U9EPkNg0@z> On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 03:37:44PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > The topic of "flattened device tree" look interesting to me (perhaps > because I'm a hardened device driver person and things like that > always look interesting to me) ... The recent oftree activities look indeed very promising; the different boot-information-passing methods, mainly in powerpc and arm land, is IMHO and important field where a generic kernel infrastructure would make sense for the embedded people. Taken that oftree has created robustness and compatiblity problems in the past but seems to move into a good direction recently, feedback from core kernel developers would certainly be a good thing. > if we can get a few more like that out of the woodwork, this approach > might end up being successful. Could flickerfree-bootsplash be a topic? Or is that completely pushed into the userspace these fastboot days? rsc -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 |