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− | == Introduction ==
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− | Device trees are a method used by the operating system to determine the hardware
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− | configuration. Device trees were originally developed for the PowerPC OpenFirmware
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− | software, as a way to encapsulate platform information and convey it to the
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− | operating system. The Linux kernel currently can read device tree information
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− | for x86 and ppc architectures. There is interest in extending support for
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− | device trees to other platforms, to unify the handling of platform description
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− | across kernel architectures.
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− | A device tree can be built at compile-time and statically linked into the kernel.
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− | Or it can be created by the bootloader firmware and passed to the kernel at
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− | boot time. The operating system reads the device tree and uses it to figure out
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− | such things like how much memory is available, bus layout, list of devices, and
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− | how interrupts are connected.
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− | == Resources ==
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− | "Using the Device Tree to Describe
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− | Embedded Hardware" - Grant Likely, Embedded Linux Conference, 2008
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− | http://www.celinux.org/elc08_presentations/glikely--device-tree.pdf
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− | "A Symphony of Flavours: Using the device tree to describe embedded
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− | hardware" - Grant Likely and Josh Boyer - paper for OLS 2008
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− | http://ols.fedoraproject.org/OLS/Reprints-2008/likely2-reprint.pdf
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− | Note from Device Tree Birds of a Feature session at OLS 2008:
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− | http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/devicetree-discuss/2008-July/000004.html
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− | Xilinx provides a device-tree generator:
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− | http://xilinx.wikidot.com/device-tree-generator
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− | "The device tree generator is a Xilinx EDK tool that plugs into the Automatic BSP Generation features of the tool, XPS"
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− | Recent discussion of "Flattened Device Tree" work on linux-embedded mailing list:
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− | http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org/msg01721.html
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− | Russel King is against adding support for FTD to the ARM platform:
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− | http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0905.3/01942.html
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− | (see whole thread for interesting discussion)
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− | === Up-coming ===
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− | Grant's talk at Plumber's conference 2009 - http://linuxplumbersconf.org/ocw/proposals/47
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