On 09/12/2016 06:07 PM, Sebastian Frias wrote: > Hi Mark, > > On 09/12/2016 04:01 PM, Mark Rutland wrote: >>> 3rd parties could choose to write a driver (as opposed to use say, a user-mode >>> library) if it fits their programming model better, if they think they would >>> have better performance, or other reasons. >> >> A vendor can always choose to "add value" in this manner. The general >> expectation of *some* driver being upstreamed remains. > > Yes, that's the idea. Just to clarify, what I meant is that, using the DT as the authoritative source of HW description is a way to "add value" to everybody, because both, 3rd-parties and the open-source community get the same information. This creates the conditions for drivers to exist, with the expectation that eventually said drivers would be upstreamed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
