@neal @elly we'll have to agree to disagree. my experience working with devicetree has only reconfirmed the reasons it was adopted in the first place -- it's a very simple concept. in 2026 a lot of the earlier architectural issues have been figured out. Bringing up a new platform is not that bad actually??

we also are in a much better place to write DT in a way that allows us to make backwards compatible changes as we describe the hardware in more detail. with ACPI you're just screwed when sayyy a vendor doesn't bother to model your type-c port as dual role capable even though it is, you lose out on hardware features that your device actually has!

nevermind the hellish issues with EC quirks and all the driver workarounds that are needed due to bad firmware

it's perfectly fine to have a preference here but i don't buy this "it's so much harder" line especially from someone who afaik hasn't had to do bring up or long term development on DT platforms. I'd take it any day over ACPI if it means not having to deal with a fw blob of unknown quality that might have deranged bugs