On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 08:31:18PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Mark Brown
On the other hand from a pragmatic point of view it's just much less hassle to just only provide the mechanism for instantiating a machine with custom code and use that for everything.
Also true, but this approach carries with it an incremental cost that distributions feel the pain of. Ultimately I think we'll find a sweet spot somewhere in between.
Meh, it's not really much hassle for the distributions - it's all handled by the kernel, they don't need to explicitly do anything.
None of the machine-specific stuff has ever been a hassle getting stuff merged, problems have always been in the drivers for the devices which device tree isn't going to make a blind bit of difference to (other than the usual discussions about what exactly the device tree should look like).