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I’m baffled by the current state of Linux for ARM where every board needs a special .dtb/.dts to describe its hardware and, often, peripherals, rather than ther
by jrmg 5mo ago
I’m baffled by the current state of Linux for ARM where every board needs a special .dtb/.dts to describe its hardware and, often, peripherals, rather than there being some kind of self-describing plug-and-play-ish system like has been standard on other mainstream architectures since the ’90s.
- AlotOfReading 5mo agoThat's what the Arm SystemReady certification is for. Blame manufacturers for ignoring it. Let's be honest, fixing device trees is usually lot easier than patching an ACPI table. Though, one manufacturer I know ships a DT with nearly 500k lines of if-def'd nodes.