For the past several months Tomeu Vizoso at Collabora has been working toward on-demand device probing for speeding up the boot process of ARM devices like the NVIDIA Tegra Chromebook.
DT/OF On-Demand Device Probing Appears Ready, Likely For Linux 4.4
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A pull request has just been sent in that in turn will target Linux 4.4 for offering on-demand device probing for helping platforms using Device Tree / OpenFirmware.
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