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>

The device tree data format is part of the Open Firmware industry standard (IEEE 1275).