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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 18:01:09 -0600
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Subject: Re: device trees.
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On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:24 PM, David Gibson
<david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:22:21PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
>> ... but I do agree that hard linking the .dtb into firmware, or making
>> the .dtb hard to upgrade is the way of madness.
>
> Ah, we're talking at cross purposes a bit then. =A0Yeah, I'm talking
> about the situation where the dtb is part of the firmware, or at least
> as difficult / inconvenient to update as the firmware. =A0If the dtb is
> separate from the kernel, but as easy to update / switch as the
> kernel, that is indeed a very nice setup.

:-D

g.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.