From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:18:41 +0200
Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Per SoC descriptor
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On Thursday 08 September 2011 18:00:09 Marc Zyngier wrote:
> This is my first stab at an idea that has floated around for a while,
> which is to have a per-soc descriptor containing most of the SoC
> specific operations, which should clear the path a bit more towards
> the single zImage holy grail. It's as far as possible from being
> perfect, but I thought I'd share it as early as possible and see what
> people think of it.
> 
> This first patch series introduces the arm_soc_desc structure, adds
> per-soc SMP and CPU hotplug operations, and converts both RealView and
> VExpress to this new scheme.

Very nice, I definitely like the concept! This is going to be really
helpful reducing the amount of stuff we need in machine descriptors.

	Arnd