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From: viresh.kumar@st.com (Viresh Kumar)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:32:42 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: SPEAr600: Add device-tree support to SPEAr600 boards
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On 3/14/2012 3:28 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> No problem, we are all learning things as we are working on them.
> 
> The idea with DT is that you no longer need any board files because all of
> the information in those files is now passed as a data structure to the kernel
> at boot time. Platforms that are fully converted to DT don't have any
> board files but just have one DT_MACHINE_START entry for all of them in
> the common platform files. Since spear600 has very little board specific
> contents at the moment, it is very easy to get to this point now, and
> that will actually help support other boards without having to do more
> patches to add board files.
> 
> When this work is completed, we might actually be able to extend the
> spear6xx DT code to also support spear3xx and spear13xx, renaming it
> to mach-spear. In that case, we would probably need one DT_MACHINE_START
> entry for each family and would not be able to actually build 13xx together
> with the other ones, but I guess a lot of the infrastructure could be shared.
> 
> I would suggest you read Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.txt
> to get a better understanding of what this is all about.

You pointed exactly to the doubt i had.
That was very helpful. I really appreciate it.

Thanks a lot.

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viresh