[jrmg]

I’m baffled by the current state of Linux for ARM where every board needs a special .dtb/.dts to describe its hardware and, often, peripherals, rather than there being some kind of self-describing plug-and-play-ish system like has been standard on other mainstream architectures since the ’90s.

[AlotOfReading]

That's what the Arm SystemReady certification is for. Blame manufacturers for ignoring it. Let's be honest, fixing device trees is usually lot easier than patching an ACPI table. Though, one manufacturer I know ships a DT with nearly 500k lines of if-def'd nodes.