In message: <20100514132142.252b0...@ernst.jennejohn.org>
Gary Jennejohn <gljennj...@googlemail.com> writes:
: As an example of what I think Andrew was addressing, U-Boot can pass a
: Flattened Device Tree to the Linux kernel. This basically allows a
: Linux kernel to handle variants of a board without having to custom
: compile Linux for each board. At the moment I think only powerpc-based
: boards can be handled in this way.
In the kernel.org kernel, this is correct. There's a fairly mature
set of patches for ARM that brings many of the newer ARM boards into
the FDT picture. There's some very immature MIPS patches flowing
around as well.
Warner
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