Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] ARM topic: Is DT on ARM the solution, or is there something better?

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On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:25:02PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> What they want is one vmlinux/z, and a package of 'stuff' that they
> can assemble a boot image for all hardware out of.

...

> On ARM the package of 'stuff' can very reasonably include dtb. Distro
> scripts can package modules+DTB+vmlinuz into something the bootloader
> can understand. (The next pain point will be to standardize that)
> 
> The DTB doesn't have to be 'outside' the distro/kernel to give users a
> seamless upgrade experience.

How can a distro possibly provide me a DTB?

They don't know what hardware I am using. Only I know that.

Thanks,
Richard
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