From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Device Tree on ARM platform Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 21:11:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090528.211103.226720983.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090529013908.GA7831@yookeroo.seuss> <4A1F4189.8060702@firmworks.com> <1243569136.17903.27.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1243569136.17903.27.camel@pasglop> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-mnsaURCQ41sdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org Errors-To: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-mnsaURCQ41sdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org To: benh-XVmvHMARGAS8U2dJNN8I7kB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org Cc: devicetree-discuss-mnsaURCQ41sdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, dbaryshkov-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-arm-kernel-xIg/pKzrS19vn6HldHNs0ANdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 13:52:16 +1000 > But it comes with some drawbacks too... too often, this stuff will > replace good documentation, the scripts provided by the FW will be > busted in subtle ways that the kernel will have to work around, and thus > it can be used as a way to avoid documenting or open sourcing things and > obfuscating operations. We'll have all of the down sides of ACPI if we start doing stuff like this. Keep FCODE execution in the firmware itself, thanks.