Re: RFC: Platform data for onboard USB assets

From: Grant Likely
Date: Thu Mar 24 2011 - 14:56:29 EST


On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 03:12:48PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 08:32:28PM +0530, Jaswinder Singh wrote:
>
> > It's a different matter that DT has many hearts to win(at least in ARM
> > Linux)
> > So, perhaps the answer to Q(a) is - Yes.
>
> It's not really a question of hearts to win. Even for people who are
> fully won over the implementation just isn't there in mainline and it's
> not clear when it'll be delivered. Right now device tree can only be
> used on SPARC, PowerPC and (I beleive) some x86 platforms.

MIPS and Microblaze too plus out-of-tree NIOS.

Regardless, I agree 100%. This isn't (er, shouldn't be) a device tree
debate. The problem does need to be solved for existing platforms.

g.
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