From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Cochran Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] ARM topic: Is DT on ARM the solution, or is there something better? Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 20:30:42 +0200 Message-ID: <20131023183041.GH5208@netboy> References: <52658EBC.8020800@wwwdotorg.org> <20131022093923.GC15640@ulmo.nvidia.com> <20131022150426.GF29341@beef> <20131022171346.GE4061@obsidianresearch.com> <20131023080630.GA14413@netboy> <20131023172955.GA17145@obsidianresearch.com> <20131023180108.GA23728@roeck-us.net> <20131023182502.GC32563@obsidianresearch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131023182502.GC32563-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Guenter Roeck , "devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "ksummit-2013-discuss-cunTk1MwBs98uUxBSJOaYoYkZiVZrdSR2LY78lusg7I@public.gmane.org" , Nicolas Pitre , Thierry Reding , Matt Porter , "linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:25:02PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > What they want is one vmlinux/z, and a package of 'stuff' that they > can assemble a boot image for all hardware out of. ... > 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. Thanks, Richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html