On Mon, 05 May 2014 09:06:14 +0200, Alexander Holler <holler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 22.11.2013 13:00, schrieb Pantelis Antoniou: > > > As one that's going to be dealing with this, please don't take the DTS > > files from the kernel. > > > > If you do this, I can guarantee that within a year almost no ARM board using DT > > will boot a mainline kernel. > > > > The reason is that vendors have enough trouble (and failing) tracking a single > > tree, adding yet another will just end to the vendor trees as far as the eye can see. > > > > Maybe, maybe, EVMs from silicon vendors will still boot, but I doubt any other > > customer board will work. > > A bit late (I don't follow the ML (or what happens in the ARM world) > closely, but as I've recently read that ARM64 will go UEFI and ACPI, I > wonder what was the reasoning behind that decision. ARM64 will include support for UEFI an ACPI, but U-Boot and DT are not going away. Really the only market segment that will care about ACPI is ARM servers. Nobody else (embedded, mobile) needs to worry about it. g. -- 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
