Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757364Ab3EJBCl (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 May 2013 21:02:41 -0400 Received: from blu0-omc3-s13.blu0.hotmail.com ([65.55.116.88]:53310 "EHLO blu0-omc3-s13.blu0.hotmail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756350Ab3EJBCk convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 May 2013 21:02:40 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 367 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 21:02:40 EDT X-EIP: [ershPQU0Ut08iln4MpaS5J82exYYk0RN] X-Originating-Email: [yuhongbao_386@hotmail.com] Message-ID: From: Yuhong Bao To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton , Robert Hancock CC: David Goodenough , "debian-arm@lists.debian.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux on small ARM machines Subject: RE: device tree not the answer in the ARM world [was: Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard] Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 18:00:36 -0700 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: References: ,<51872CF6.5070409@gmail.com>,, Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 May 2013 01:00:36.0953 (UTC) FILETIME=[C840BC90:01CE4D19] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1111 Lines: 19 ---------------------------------------- > From: yuhongbao_386@hotmail.com > To: lkcl@lkcl.net; hancockrwd@gmail.com > CC: david.goodenough@btconnect.com; debian-arm@lists.debian.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk > Subject: RE: device tree not the answer in the ARM world [was: Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard] > Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 17:56:33 -0700 > > > the economics of market forces don't work that way. > > profit-maximising companies are pathologically and *LEGALLY* bound to > > enact the articles of incorporation. so you'd need to show them that > > it would hurt their profits to continue the way that they are going. > I think legally bound is a myth, but that is off-topic for lkml of course. And obviously it doesn't matter if it is actually required by law if they practically behave that way. Yuhong Bao -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/