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Mechanism for passing hardware information
In computing, a devicetree is a data structure describing the hardware components of a particular computer so that the operating system's kernel can use and manage those components, including the CPUs or SoC, the memory, the storage, the buses and the integrated peripherals. Wikipedia →
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Noun A data structure placed in memory by a computer system (such as firmware) that contains information about the available hardware on the system, allowing operating systems to automatically discover it.
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