Understanding device trees(dtsi files??) and mastering them.

Peter Senna Tschudin peter.senna at gmail.com
Fri Aug 9 09:40:18 EDT 2013


Good starting point:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/Documentation/devicetree?id=refs/tags/v3.10.5



On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 3:40 AM, manty kuma <mantykuma at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am currently working on a platform which uses device trees.
>
> I donot have any understanding on them.
>
> What are device trees? I see they are in the form of .dtsi and they are
> having their own format. Also all these files are present in platform
> specific code(). So i can make out that these are related to hardware
> initialization or something similar. But to avoid any misconceptions, it
> would be nice if someone with prior experience on this would share the basic
> details about it. Also please site to good references if you know have any.
>
> Thanks,
> Sandeep kumar
>
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Peter



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