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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Machine ID question
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 13:04:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110220130420.GD14495@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201102141612.17340.alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 04:12:16PM +0100, Alexander Stein wrote:
> On Thursday 10 February 2011, 09:29:15 Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 02:23:07PM -0700, John Linn wrote:
> > > I used the form to create a new machine ID for the new Xilinx platform
> > > in anticipation of
> > > the code making it into the mainline sometime in the future.
> > > 
> > > The proposed patches are using ARCH_XILINX in the Kconfig.
> > 
> > You should use MACH_XILINX in the patches.  There are some ARCH_... in
> > the machine db, but I think nowadays you cannot (and should not) create
> > them there.
> 
> Uhm, the last entry in the db was created today (14th Feb). Is there a reason 
> why there no new entries should be created?

huh?

The machine registry hands out MACH_foo identifiers.  It used to hand
them out as ARCH_foo identifiers, but we decided that was misleading -
it's dealing with machines, not architectures.  So a MACH_ prefix is
more correct than an ARCH_ prefix.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-20 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-09 21:23 Machine ID question John Linn
2011-02-10  8:29 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-02-14 14:46   ` John Linn
2011-02-14 15:12   ` Alexander Stein
2011-02-20 13:04     ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2011-02-21 14:41       ` John Linn
2011-02-21 15:03       ` Alexander Stein

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