Re: [PATCH v2] 8xx: Add support for the MPC852 based board from keymile.

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Scott,

in message <20080318151132.GA17402@ld0162-tx32.am.freescale.net> you wrote:
>
> Well, the device tree is a mechanism for communicating from the firmware
> to the kernel, and if we could control the firmware better we'd just make
> it set the pins properly to begin with. :-)

Is this just a comment, or do you oppose Heiko's suggestion?

Other uses of the device tree seem possible and reasonable, too.  For
example, we can use the device tree to configure the firmware (U-Boot
in this case).

Using the device tree  to  describe  the  pin  configuration  of  the
hardware  sounds  easier to me than hard-coding it in some source (or
header) file - no matter if this is  in  the  kernel  and/or  in  the
firmware.

What do you think?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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