[TUHS] the device tree, hardware, and kernels.

[Chris Hanson via TUHS]

On Apr 6, 2026, at 4:12 PM, segaloco via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
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> DTB to me is better than having to go twiddling baked in kernel addresses at build time, then you really do need a kernel-per-machine rather than being able to spin a "defconfig" kernel that'll hopefully at least give you serial TTY on whatever you're messing with.

This is the main reason I think someone is working on improving device tree adoption in NetBSD; availability of community and vendor device trees could reduce the number of more specialized kernel builds needed, and reduce the requirement to do a full port to support new hardware.

  -- Chris