Re: ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party drivers

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Mon Sep 12 2016 - 13:07:52 EST


On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 11:49:07AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Warner Losh wrote:
> >Do I have more examples
> >where FreeBSD has to deviate because the DT is actually Linux
> >specific and does a poor job of modeling the hardware and instead
> >reflects the Linux driver model? I have plenty of those...
>
> I think it would be a great idea if the FreeBSD and Linux DT
> maintainers collaborated on cleaning up the DT bindings so that this
> problem no longer occurs (or at least, not normally).

Indeed. Theoretically/hopefully, the devicetree.org stuff creates a more
inclusive forum for this.

Thanks,
Mark.