Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Device Tree on ARM platform

Scott Wood
2009-05-27T23:59:41Z

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?

-Scott