Dear Jason, In message <20130221232821.GA2823@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > > > > own seems to be rather static and stable, and unlike software there is > > > no way I can change it (soldering irons don't count). > > > > There is other hardware available (for example FPGA based) where this > > does not apply. > > Agreed.. We do that here as well, the DT is also used to describe the > functionality inside FPGA(s). We do things like declare a GPIO > controller inside the FPGA, then stack the bitbang MDIO/I2C on top of > that, then declare a bunch of devices on those busses. DT makes this > extremely straightforward. > > However, it is critical that the DT, kernel and FPGA are matched > together - we always arrange things so that the DTB, kernel and FPGA > config are bundled together and update atomically during firmware > upgrade. Agreed. > Xilinx's Zynq is a great example of this kind of stuff, FWIW. IIRC Indeed - Xilinx's Zynq, Altera's SoC FPGA, and others. Such highly flexible hardware configurations require a new level of software support that by far exceeds the classic static setups of more "PC-like" systems where the only change you would expect is adding or removing some PCI cards or the like. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@xxxxxxx Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done. -- James J. Ling -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html