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+What:		/sys/firmware/devicetree/*
+Date:		November 2013
+Contact:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
+Description:
+		When using OpenFirmware or a Flattened Device Tree to enumerate
+		hardware, the device tree structure will be exposed in this
+		directory.
+
+		It is possible for multiple device-tree directories to exist.
+		Some device drivers use a separate detached device tree which
+		have no attachment to the system tree and will appear in a
+		different subdirectory under /sys/firmware/devicetree.
+
+		Userspace must not use the /sys/firmware/devicetree/base
+		path directly, but instead should follow /proc/device-tree
+		symlink. It is possible that the absolute path will change
+		in the future, but the symlink is the stable ABI.
+
+		The /proc/device-tree symlink replaces the devicetree /proc
+		filesystem support, and has largely the same semantics and
+		should be compatible with existing userspace.
+
+		The contents of /sys/firmware/devicetree/ is a
+		hierarchy of directories, one per device tree node. The
+		directory name is the resolved path component name (node
+		name plus address). Properties are represented as files
+		in the directory. The contents of each file is the exact
+		binary data from the device tree.