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From: grant.b.edwards@gmail.com (Grant Edwards)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Building kernel for more than one SoC
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 15:47:29 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lsaoih$e9$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 53E8E469.9050807@atmel.com

On 2014-08-11, Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> wrote:
> On 04/08/2014 22:17, Russell King - ARM Linux :

[...]

>> Even better is to abstract the differences and have the same driver
>> code deal with the different variants internally - the selection of
>> which variant being controlled via the device tree "compatible"
>> property, or another appropriate method.
>
> Sure. Everything in at91 is converted to device tree those days.

That's good to hear, thanks.

Now it's up to somebody else to decide if the price difference between
a G20 and G25 is worth the engineering time to upgrade U-Boot and
Linux kernel to versions that know about device trees...

-- 
Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! I smell a RANCID
                                  at               CORN DOG!
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-11 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-31 13:59 Building kernel for more than one SoC Grant Edwards
2014-07-31 21:07 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-08-04 19:11   ` Grant Edwards
2014-08-04 20:17 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-08-11 15:42   ` Nicolas Ferre
2014-08-11 15:47     ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2014-08-11 16:12       ` Robert Nelson
2014-08-11 20:43         ` Grant Edwards
2014-08-11 20:59           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-08-11 21:15             ` Grant Edwards
2014-08-11 21:38               ` Robert Nelson
2014-08-11 21:57                 ` Grant Edwards
2014-08-11 22:43               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-08-11 23:02                 ` Grant Edwards
2014-08-14  1:12                   ` Tomasz Figa
2014-08-12  3:52                 ` Olof Johansson

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