devicetree

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.

Noun

  1. 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.

Origin

From device + tree, referring to a tree data structure that encodes the properties of the given device.

Forms

devicetrees device tree

Derived

DT DTB devicetree blob FDT flattened devicetree