I can relate to the article; I've been working for a year to make a new ARM based SoC architecture for a vendor, mostly for industrial purpose. It's already quite a chunk of work.
Just designing the clock tree, pinmux, fancy DMA -- let alone the individual 'custom' IPs for peripherals is enough to keep a handful of dev busy for a while!
Does ARM have a good device configuration story yet? Last time I worked in ARM/Linux everything was done through the "board" model where you basically just hard-coded devices you expected to exist.
I thought that Microsoft was bringing UEFI/ACPI to ARM but TBH I haven't kept up.
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 12.6 ms ] threadBut, I have to say, it's quite fun too!
I thought that Microsoft was bringing UEFI/ACPI to ARM but TBH I haven't kept up.
(http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/..., http://www.devicetree.org/Main_Page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_tree, http://elinux.org/Device_Tree)