Re: ACPI vs Device Tree - moving forward

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Fri Aug 23 2013 - 21:47:49 EST


On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 02:10:36AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 05:13:45PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>
> > Did the group conclude that the idea of FDT augmenting ACPI is not feasible ?
>
> I think expressing FDT in ACPI is feasible, I'm just not sure it's
> desirable. We'd still end up with duplicate information and no mechanism
> for drivers to handle both.
>
Not sure I understand what you are saying. My understanding of "augment"
would be that there is ACPI information, and there is a separate FDT
(or an FDT overlay) providing additional information. There should be
no duplicate information in this model.

Guenter
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