On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 08:59:55AM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:

My perspective is that cut/pasting the entire SoC definition into a board
definition is the devicetree equivalent of having more than one driver
per chip, not sharing gpio/pinmux/... code, etc. in the kernel; the very
stuff that caused Linus to complain about the state of ARM Linux.

Very strongly agreed, we've had to do that in the past because of
limitations in the device tree infrastructure but if we end up having to
cut'n'paste that's not going to be great for maintainability.