On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 05:48:48PM -0400, Rob Clark wrote: > Just speaking as an outsider to this topic, but seems like most/all > tablets/phones/etc ship with signed firmware. Which means for most of > the population, upgrading the firmware to a new version which did > support the standard (assuming it existed), isn't really an option on > our devices, any more than fixing buggy acpi tables is on our > laptops.. I wouldn't expect most population to build their own kernels on tablets/phones. And even if you could install a custom kernel, mainline rarely runs on such devices because of tons of out of tree patches (just look at the Nexus 9 patches that Kumar pointed at; even ignoring the booting protocol they are extremely far from an upstreamable form). -- Catalin -- 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
