Subject: Re: Mikrotik RouterBoard 333

From: Segher Boessenkool <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:13:19 +0200

>> Other than that quibble, I agree that burning the blob into the 
>> firmware
>> so that the firmware must be recompiled and reburned to change the 
>> blob
>> is very undesirable.
>
> I thought the device tree was *supposed* to be an interface between the
> firmware and the kernel?  What if the firmware produces the tree
> dynamically?  What if the firmware itself depends on having the device 
> tree
> in order to operate?

Sure.  But in the case where the firmware just passes the
kernel some fixed blob, it is easier for everyone to include
that blob with the kernel instead.

Segher