Re: [Ksummit-2009-discuss] Representing Embedded Architectures at the Kernel Summit

From: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	ksummit-2009-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org,
	David VomLehn <dvomlehn@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2009-discuss] Representing Embedded Architectures at the Kernel Summit
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 23:34:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090602213452.GK32630@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1243975064.6342.10.camel@mulgrave.site>

On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 03:37:44PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> The topic of "flattened device tree" look interesting to me (perhaps
> because I'm a hardened device driver person and things like that
> always look interesting to me) ...

The recent oftree activities look indeed very promising; the different
boot-information-passing methods, mainly in powerpc and arm land, is
IMHO and important field where a generic kernel infrastructure would
make sense for the embedded people. Taken that oftree has created
robustness and compatiblity problems in the past but seems to move into
a good direction recently, feedback from core kernel developers would
certainly be a good thing.

> if we can get a few more like that out of the woodwork, this approach
> might end up being successful.

Could flickerfree-bootsplash be a topic? Or is that completely pushed
into the userspace these fastboot days?

rsc
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