[PATCH 0/8] ARM: sun8i: a33: Mali improvements

Rask Ingemann Lambertsen rask at formelder.dk
Fri Feb 17 21:56:11 UTC 2017


On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 04:44:19PM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
[...]
> We already have DT bindings for out of tree drivers, there's really
> nothing new here.

We have DT bindings for *hardware*, not for drivers. As stated in
Documentation/devicetree/usage-model.txt:

"The "Open Firmware Device Tree", or simply Device Tree (DT), is a data
structure and language for describing hardware.  More specifically, it
is a description of hardware that is readable by an operating system
so that the operating system doesn't need to hard code details of the
machine."

"2.1 High Level View
-------------------
The most important thing to understand is that the DT is simply a data
structure that describes the hardware."

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Rask Ingemann Lambertsen


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