From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 22:05:00 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v2] ARM: remove name from machine_desc for DT platforms In-Reply-To: References: <1383511801-31682-1-git-send-email-robherring2@gmail.com> <20131115191359.GS16735@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: <201311152205.00914.arnd@arndb.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Friday 15 November 2013, Rob Herring wrote: > I was referring only to DT enabled machine_desc's. I don't think we'll > touch non-DT machine_desc's. An example is combining several per SoC > DT based machine_desc's into a single SoC family machine_desc. > Ideally, we'd get rid of the machine_desc altogether, but that may not > be possible. Right. We may be able to make some fields of the machine_desc #ifdef CONFIG_ATAGS at some point, but I think we will have legacy platforms needing machine_desc callbacks for a very long time. A different question is what to do about new hardware support. I'm somewhat optimistic that at some point we can mandate that new machines should no longer require a machine_desc, just as we already require for ARM64. Arnd