From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:49:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.atheros.com ([12.19.149.2]:59455 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S1491930Ab0KWSt2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:49:28 +0100 Received: from mail.atheros.com ([10.10.20.107]) by sidewinder.atheros.com for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:49:15 -0800 Received: from tux (10.10.11.84) by SC1EXHC-02.global.atheros.com (10.10.20.106) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.213.0; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:49:20 -0800 Received: by tux (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:49:19 -0800 Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:49:19 -0800 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: Arnaud Lacombe CC: Gabor Juhos , Felix Fietkau , Ralf Baechle , "linux-mips@linux-mips.org" , "kaloz@openwrt.org" , Luis Rodriguez , Cliff Holden Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/18] MIPS: add generic support for multiple machines within a single kernel Message-ID: <20101123184919.GJ29396@tux> References: <1290524800-21419-1-git-send-email-juhosg@openwrt.org> <1290524800-21419-4-git-send-email-juhosg@openwrt.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 28497 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: lrodriguez@atheros.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:29:49AM -0800, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Gabor Juhos wrote: > > This patch adds a generic solution to support multiple machines based on > > a given SoC within a single kernel image. It is implemented already for > > several other architectures but MIPS has no generic support for that yet. > > > Is this the way `arch/mips' wants to go to support multiple machine > within a same kernel image ? Flattened Device Tree is the other way to > achieve that. I remind the latter being proposed by Felix Fietkau on > #openwrt. We either do this now or later. If now it means more work and we'd have to wait until the work is done. If no one is working on it right now it seems easier to submit this as is for now and later get the port done to the device tree model. Luis