From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: cov@codeaurora.org (Christopher Covington)
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 10:03:40 -0400
Subject: Proposal: mach-dt
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On 07/03/2013 05:20 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 03/07/13 09:18, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> 
> Hi Alexander,
> 
>> More and more platforms are now using devicetree.
>> Ideally the platform code contains only one function "of_platform_populate".
>> My idea is to make a generic architecture (mach-dt) with the call then add support
>> for compatible subarchitectures as they become available in "compatible"-property.
>> Your opinion?
> 
> Well, my (admittedly partial) opinion is that mach-virt is an incredibly
> nicer sounding name, 'specially as you can mistype it as mach-triv.

As mentioned before, I disagree and would love to see the the
virtualization-specific name replaced by something more suitably generic.

Christopher

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