[U-Boot-Users] using a flat device tree to drive u-boot config

Scott Wood
2008-07-28T18:59:21Z

Ben Warren wrote:
> Uh, yeah. I like the idea of a central repo for hardware info, and
> the device tree concept is good. My point is that the syntax, while
> concise and exact, can be intimidating. Just look at the amount of
> traffic on the mailing lists of people that don't understand what all
> the fields mean when specifying IRQs etc. Anything we can do to make
> it less so for noobies is a good thing for everybody.

Sure, no argument there -- enhancing the dts syntax with symbolic
constants, computational expressions, and macros should make things like
interrupt specifiers and maps a lot clearer.

-Scott