LinuxCon Japan: One zImage to rule them all

Posted Jun 15, 2012 14:07 UTC (Fri) by dashesy (guest, #74652)
Parent article: LinuxCon Japan: One zImage to rule them all

I have a question cannot resist to ask; why something like protocol buffers is not used for device trees, the semantics are very well defined and there are also C bindings for it. It also should make it better suited to boot over other mediums (such as internet).

LinuxCon Japan: One zImage to rule them all

Posted Jun 15, 2012 18:12 UTC (Fri) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

part of it may be that there is a lot of value in the device tree being human readable and able to be tweaked with a standard text editor.