From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Likely Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Device Tree on ARM platform Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 21:21:39 -0600 Message-ID: References: <1243408083.13460.14.camel@debian-nb> <20090527150527.GK6805@pengutronix.de> <20090527162000.GM6805@pengutronix.de> <20090527234801.GP6805@pengutronix.de> <4A1DD3A0.3010501@freescale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4A1DD3A0.3010501-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org> 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: Scott Wood Cc: devicetree-discuss , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-arm-kernel-xIg/pKzrS19vn6HldHNs0ANdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org, Janboe Ye , Timur Tabi , rmk-lFZ/pmaqli7XmaaqVzeoHQ@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Scott Wood wrote: > Robert Schwebel wrote: >> >> The oftree by design wants to be a complete hardware description. As you >> mention above, there are cases where you *nevertheless* need ad-hoc >> information about things *not* encoded into the device tree. >> >> This renders the whole concept ad absurdum. You need a machine number >> again - and if you need that: why not stay with the ARM model, define >> everything with platform data and avoid the whole thing? > > Because it's better to have a little platform specific code than a lot of > it? Yes, exactly. g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.