Re: [PATCH 0/3] capebus moving omap_devices to mach-omap2

From: Pantelis Antoniou
Date: Mon Nov 05 2012 - 08:26:25 EST



On Nov 5, 2012, at 1:22 AM, Grant Likely wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Pantelis Antoniou
> <panto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Assuming that we do work on a DT object format, and that the runtime resolution mechanism is approved,
>> then I agree that this part of the capebus patches can be dropped and the functionality assumed by generic
>> DT core.
>>
>> The question is that this will take time, with no guarantees that this would be acceptable from
>> the device tree maintainers. So I am putting them in the CC list, to see what they think about it.
>
> This is actually exactly the direction I want to go with DT, which the
> ability to load supplemental DT data blobs from either a kernel module
> or userspace using the firmware loading infrastructure.
>
> g.

Hi Grant,

That's pretty much our use case.

Regards

-- Pantelis


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