alt Hacker NewsThere's also a risk of your DeviceTree getting pruned from the kernel in X years when it's decided that "no one uses that board anymore", which is something that's happened to several boards I bought in the 2010's, but not something that's happened to any PC I've ever owned.
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MarsIronPI • today at 2:05 AM
Isn't this one of the benefits of ACPI? That the kernel asks the motherboard for the hardware information that on ARM SoCs is stored in the device tree?
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It’s weirded me out for a long time that we’ve gone from ‘we will probe the hardware in a standard way and automatically load the appropriate drivers at boot’ ideal we seemed to have settled on for computers in the 2000s - and still use on x86 - back to ‘we’ll write a specific description file for every configuration of hardware’ for ARM.