On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 07:18:42AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Yes we could make property fetching faster but mostly by creating a new > bulk interface which is quite a bit of work, a new API, and will in > practice not be used for anything other than creating the FDT. In that > case, nothing will beat in performance having OF create the FDT itself > based on its current tree.
And that will change the whole boot protocol, the interaction between OF and its client, which is a much bigger change, not conceptually trivial at all. Copying all properties at once is, which is why I suggested it. It would take away the opposition to your patch. Segher
