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From: davidb@codeaurora.org (David Brown)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] ARM topic: Is DT on ARM the solution, or is there something better?
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 23:47:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131022064723.GA15861@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.03.1310201911190.1951@syhkavp.arg>

On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 09:00:08PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

>The hardware support in the kernel, on the other hand, can be improved
>incrementally with time.  It doesn't matter if it is not optimal at
>first. It can be revisited, optimized, reviewed, and sometimes even
>redesigned.  And only when it reaches maturity would be the time to use
>the experience from the kernel development and make some firmware out of
>it.  But what would be the point then?

One other point that is kind of overlooked, but I think is important,
is that firmware will tend to be closed source.  The advantages we get
to having drivers shared in the kernel would be gone, and we would end
up with multiple implementations of essentially the same driver,
especially with reference hardware blocks that get used in different
platforms.

David

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-22  6:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 171+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-20 21:26 ARM topic: Is DT on ARM the solution, or is there something better? Stephen Warren
2013-10-20 22:08 ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Mark Brown
2013-10-20 22:21   ` Stephen Warren
2013-10-21  1:00     ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-10-21  9:15       ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-21 14:57         ` Maxime Bizon
2013-10-21 17:07         ` Richard Cochran
2013-10-21 20:24           ` Stephen Warren
2013-10-22  9:24           ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-23 17:30             ` Richard Cochran
2013-10-23 19:06               ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-22 17:22           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-21 20:29       ` Stephen Warren
2013-10-21 20:40         ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-10-22  9:39           ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-22 15:04             ` Matt Porter
2013-10-22 17:13               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-22 17:49                 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-10-23  8:06                 ` Richard Cochran
2013-10-23  9:49                   ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-23 17:16                     ` Richard Cochran
2013-10-23 17:25                       ` Matt Porter
2013-10-23 18:05                         ` Richard Cochran
2013-10-23 18:57                           ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-10-23 20:12                           ` Matt Porter
2013-10-23 17:55                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-10-23 18:13                         ` Richard Cochran
2013-10-23 20:35                           ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-23 17:29                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-23 17:45                     ` Richard Cochran
2013-10-23 18:46                       ` Maxime Bizon
2013-10-23 18:51                         ` Richard Cochran
2013-10-23 19:12                           ` Maxime Bizon
2013-10-24  9:52                         ` Grant Likely
2013-10-24 11:33                           ` Maxime Bizon
2013-10-24 11:47                             ` David Woodhouse
2013-10-24 12:13                               ` Maxime Bizon
2013-10-24 12:22                                 ` David Woodhouse
2013-10-24 12:22                                 ` David Woodhouse
2013-10-24 13:05                                   ` Maxime Bizon
2013-10-24 13:14                                     ` David Woodhouse
2013-10-24 13:46                                       ` Maxime Bizon
2013-10-24 19:52                                         ` Matt Porter
2013-10-24 20:11                                       ` Matt Sealey
2013-10-25  9:00                                 ` Stephen Warren
2013-10-24 12:23                               ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-24 12:29                                 ` David Woodhouse
2013-10-24 13:00                                 ` Maxime Bizon
2013-10-24 13:10                                   ` David Woodhouse
2013-10-24 13:30                                     ` Maxime Bizon
2013-10-24 14:05                                       ` David Woodhouse
2013-10-24 14:19                                         ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-24 14:30                                           ` David Woodhouse
2013-10-24 14:38                                             ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-24 16:39                                             ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-10-24 16:45                                               ` David Woodhouse
2013-10-24 17:08                                                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-10-24 18:15                                                 ` jonsmirl at gmail.com
2013-10-24 14:32                                           ` Richard Cochran
2013-10-24 14:47                                             ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-24 15:37                                             ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-10-24 14:33                                           ` Maxime Bizon
2013-10-24 14:57                                             ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-24 16:27                                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-10-24 14:12                                     ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-24 14:22                                       ` David Woodhouse
2013-10-24 14:23                                         ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-24 14:38                                           ` David Woodhouse
2013-10-24 14:58                                             ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-24 19:58                                         ` Matt Porter
2013-10-24 23:54                                       ` Grant Likely
2013-10-25  8:52                             ` Stephen Warren
2013-10-25  9:16                               ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-23 17:47                     ` Richard Cochran
2013-10-23 17:58                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-10-23 18:02                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-23 18:23                         ` Richard Cochran
2013-10-24  8:34                           ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-24 15:00                             ` Richard Cochran
2013-10-24 19:46                               ` Matt Porter
2013-10-23 18:01                     ` Guenter Roeck
2013-10-23 18:25                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-23 18:30                         ` Richard Cochran
2013-10-23 18:54                           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-24  8:06                             ` Sascha Hauer
2013-10-24  8:17                               ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-24  8:52                                 ` Sascha Hauer
2013-10-23 23:29                           ` Ben Hutchings
2013-10-24  7:32                             ` Richard Cochran
2013-10-24  9:35                               ` Ben Hutchings
2013-10-24 12:02                         ` Andre Heider
2013-10-24  8:01                     ` Sascha Hauer
2013-10-24  8:11                       ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-22 17:42               ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-10-22 18:21                 ` Peter Maydell
2013-10-22 18:36                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-10-22 19:16                   ` Guenter Roeck
2013-10-22 20:12                 ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-22 20:41                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-10-22 21:39                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-23  8:50                     ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-23  9:02                     ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-22 20:42                   ` Matt Porter
2013-10-23 10:04                     ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-23 11:48                       ` Peter Maydell
2013-10-23 16:29                       ` Matt Porter
2013-10-22  6:47       ` David Brown [this message]
2013-10-20 23:11 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-10-20 23:44   ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Guenter Roeck
2013-10-20 23:51     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-10-21  0:13       ` Guenter Roeck
2013-10-21 20:05     ` Stephen Warren
2013-10-22  9:45       ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-21  8:32   ` Sascha Hauer
2013-10-21  8:48     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-10-21  9:27       ` Sascha Hauer
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2013-10-21  9:57         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-10-21 10:24           ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-21 10:30             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-10-21 10:41               ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-22  9:19             ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Mark Brown
2013-10-21 20:09           ` Stephen Warren
2013-10-21 23:18           ` Sascha Hauer
2013-10-24  1:14         ` Rob Clark
2013-10-24  7:28           ` Sascha Hauer
2013-10-24  9:00             ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-24  9:21               ` Sascha Hauer
2013-10-24 21:21             ` Rob Clark
2013-10-25  9:24               ` Thierry Reding
2013-11-18 12:45               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-11-18 15:37                 ` Thierry Reding
2013-11-18 16:11                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-11-18 16:18                     ` Thierry Reding
2013-11-18 18:43                     ` Mark Brown
2013-11-19 13:54                 ` Grant Likely
2013-10-21 10:04       ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-21 10:57       ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Laurent Pinchart
2013-10-21 10:00   ` Laurent Pinchart
2013-10-21 11:18   ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2013-10-21  8:54 ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-21 20:19   ` Stephen Warren
2013-10-21 22:51     ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Guenter Roeck
2013-10-22 10:27       ` James Hogan
2013-10-22 16:31         ` Jonathan Cameron
2013-10-22 16:49           ` Guenter Roeck
2013-10-22 20:35             ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-22 21:10               ` Guenter Roeck
2013-10-23  7:57                 ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-23 16:01                   ` Guenter Roeck
2013-10-23 21:07                     ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-24 15:18                       ` Guenter Roeck
2013-11-01 10:36                         ` Thierry Reding
2013-11-01 13:30                           ` Guenter Roeck
2013-10-22 20:48         ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-22 10:25     ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-22 21:44 ` Matt Sealey
2013-10-23 11:41   ` Peter Maydell
2013-10-23 23:02     ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Rob Herring
2013-11-18 12:26 ` Thierry Reding
2013-11-18 13:40   ` Grant Likely
2013-11-18 13:57     ` Mark Brown
2013-11-18 15:29       ` Thierry Reding
2013-11-18 15:50         ` Mark Brown
2013-11-18 16:06           ` Thierry Reding
2013-11-18 17:16             ` Stephen Warren
2013-11-19  9:35               ` Thierry Reding
2013-11-19 17:27                 ` Stephen Warren
2013-11-20 13:29                   ` Thierry Reding
2013-11-18 18:35             ` Mark Brown
2013-11-19  9:11               ` Thierry Reding
2013-11-19 10:16                 ` Mark Brown

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