Device Tree Data Format
The device tree data format represents information for the devices on a board. It has these characteristics:
- A tree structure of nodes and properties
- A single root node "
/
" - Child nodes with properties
- Key-value pairs represent properties
- Keys used as property identifiers
- Values are empty or byte streams
- Data types of streams:
- Strings
"Value"
- List of strings:
"Value_1", "Value_1"
- Binary data:
[0x1 0x2 0x3]
- Cell:
<0x1 0x2 0x3>
- Strings
The device tree data format is part of the Open Firmware industry standard (IEEE 1275).