From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:11:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from nbd.name ([46.4.11.11]:55034 "EHLO nbd.name" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S1903760Ab2FMOLJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:11:09 +0200 Message-ID: <4FD89F51.5020200@openwrt.org> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:10:25 +0200 From: John Crispin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111114 Icedove/3.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] MIPS: BCM63XX: move flash registration out of board_bcm963xx.c References: <1339489425-19037-1-git-send-email-jonas.gorski@gmail.com> <1339489425-19037-2-git-send-email-jonas.gorski@gmail.com> <20120613134801.GA5516@linux-mips.org> <2177534.JpaDVG7JnB@flexo> <20120613135953.GB6839@linux-mips.org> In-Reply-To: <20120613135953.GB6839@linux-mips.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-archive-position: 33625 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: blogic@openwrt.org Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-Id: linux-mips X-List-ID: linux-mips List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: X-list: linux-mips Return-Path: On 13/06/12 15:59, Ralf Baechle wrote: >>> > > And the grand cure for that sort of issue is FDT - we by now have built >>> > > big deserts of code just registering platform devices like this.. See >>> > > John Crispin's Lantiq work or David's Cavium code for FDT examples. >> > >> > I have some patches to convert bcm63xx to FDT but that is still work in >> > progress, and I don't want them to hold support for newer BCM63xx CPUs. > Oh absolutely. I'm just nagging to make it clear to everybody into what > direction the world is moving. > FDT FTW :-)