| title: | Re RFC PATCH Device Tree on ARM platform |
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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Robert Schwebel
<r.schwebel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:51:26AM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
True. From a commercial point of view this is a huge problem casued
by the device tree - custumers who used to oder a BSP from commercial
service providers (like Robert or me :-) now often find that all they
need to do is to tweak the device tree to get their system running.
Lost business. D*mn... [Maybe this explains Roberts reluctance?]
Wolfgang, you know me long enough to realize that this argument is
*crap*.
Talking about business cases, it has turned out to be extremely
difficult to explain customers that the effort for the actual
functionality is only a little percentage of the work necessary to do
the oftree stuff right. The functionality has often worked after a few
hours, and until all oftrees have been solved, it often takes weeks.
In result, this has already led to customers concluding that
- mainline is not worth the effort
And as an indirect customer of yours (via Phytec) I am spending a
bunch of time submitting code you wrote to mainline. By not submitting
code to mainline you prevent me from getting to security patches that
have been made to later kernels. "port and forget" is evil should be
banned.
- linux is overkill and one should better use cortex-bare-metal
However, that is only our personal observation.
rsc
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