From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Wood Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:43:22 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] using a flat device tree to drive u-boot config In-Reply-To: References: <488E02C7.5000106@freescale.com> Message-ID: <488E053A.40205@freescale.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Ben Warren wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Scott Wood wrote: >> I find a device tree much easier to figure out than a tangled mess of header >> files, #defines, and #ifdefs... > > In many ways, yes. But are you an average Joe or a Linux kernel propellerhead? Is u-boot work normally done by average Joes, and does the average Joe really find the preprocessor mess more intuitive than a "propellerhead"? While we're at it, let's re-write u-boot in Visual Basic. :-) -Scott