Re: Device Tree Evolution Project - call notes - 6th November

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Hi Paul,

On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 02:56:28PM -0800, Paul Walmsley wrote:
>On Wed, 6 Nov 2019, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>
>> * How often are platform folks shipping working DT with the firmware?
>
>[ ... ]
>
>>   + RISC-V plan is to always have DTB in the firmware too
>
>While the RISC-V Linux kernel uses DT as its primary device data format.  
>But that doesn't carry any implications as to where that data is stored on 
>any given implementation.  Based on the ARM experience, it's highly likely 
>that many RISC-V systems will not store DT in firmware, for reasons that 
>have probably been rehashed too many times already to do so again.

Thanks for the correction!

Cheers,
-- 
Steve McIntyre                                steve.mcintyre@xxxxxxxxxx
<http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs




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