ARM, SoC: About the use DT-defined properties by 3rd-party drivers

On 09/12/2016 06:07 PM, Sebastian Frias wrote:

Hi Mark,

On 09/12/2016 04:01 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:

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3rd parties could choose to write a driver (as opposed to use say, a user-mode
library) if it fits their programming model better, if they think they would
have better performance, or other reasons.

A vendor can always choose to "add value" in this manner. The general
expectation of *some* driver being upstreamed remains.

Yes, that's the idea.

Just to clarify, what I meant is that, using the DT as the authoritative
source of HW description is a way to "add value" to everybody, because both,
3rd-parties and the open-source community get the same information.
This creates the conditions for drivers to exist, with the expectation that
eventually said drivers would be upstreamed.