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From: jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com (Jason Gunthorpe)
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: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:54:35 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131023185435.GD32563@obsidianresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131023183041.GH5208@netboy>

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 08:30:42PM +0200, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:25:02PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> > On ARM the package of 'stuff' can very reasonably include dtb. Distro
> > scripts can package modules+DTB+vmlinuz into something the bootloader
> > can understand. (The next pain point will be to standardize that)
> > 
> > The DTB doesn't have to be 'outside' the distro/kernel to give users a
> > seamless upgrade experience.
> 
> How can a distro possibly provide me a DTB?
> 
> They don't know what hardware I am using. Only I know that.

I'm not sure what you are asking? Treat DTBs like kernel drivers. If
you make hardware and you want distros to run on it, you have to
provide the DTB for that hardware to mainline+distros.

Remember, there are two ways to view DTB:
  a) It comes from the firmware and you have to live with whatever
     crap the firmware does
  b) It comes from the kernel, must match the kernel, and we don't
     have to tolerate crap in the DTB.

Both make sense, but, IMHO, minimizing the occurrence of 'a' is a
good goal...

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-23 18:54 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 [this message]
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
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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