On Monday 06 January 2014, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > That would be rather unfortunate and we should probably > > try to merge the bindings eventually and make sure that either OS can > > boot with any conforming DTB > > It probably requires one of the DT maintainers to talk to FreeBSD > equivalents to get some coordination going. We have a lot of generic > stuff, like gpio keys, gpio leds, cpu nodes, mtd partitions, etc, > which could be done at a high level, and then SoC specific nodes > sorted out between individual developers. Right. They seem to have quite a selection of dts files by now, which are roughly comparable to the ones we have, but slightly different in some aspects. > > On the example of missing clocks, it should work as long as all relevant > > clocks are enabled by the boot loader and the clock properties are > > optional the binding. > > However, not all clocks are optional. We need the clock in order to > know how fast it ticks. So at least the serial ports and i2c will not > work, and maybe other devices, i would have to check. Right. We used to have "clock-frequency" properties defined in a number of bindings that predate the generic clock binding, but I guess we wouldn't do that anymore. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html