devicetree blob
nounEtymology Blob is used in its sense of “big chunk binary data”, or “binary large object”.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A binary representation used to encode the devicetree format, used for exchanging devicetree data between programs.
- On platforms that support it, a devicetree blob will be passed by the firmware to the operating system upon boot.
- Derived terms
- DTB