[the_biot]

Hear, hear.

I find it amazing that ARM hasn't come up with an auto-discovery mechanism for their platforms. They're the only ones in a position to do it, and they've done exactly nothing about it. The device tree junk we have to live with is here to stay.

The U-Boot situation is really no better. Nearly every vendor ships with U-Boot, and it's always, always a fork that never gets updated. ARM should have taken that situation in hand decades ago, too.