From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Will Deacon Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 3/6] arm64/arm, numa, dt: adding numa dt binding implementation for arm64 platforms. Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:39:26 +0000 Message-ID: <20160128143925.GC775@arm.com> References: <1453134965-6125-1-git-send-email-gkulkarni@caviumnetworks.com> <1453134965-6125-4-git-send-email-gkulkarni@caviumnetworks.com> <20160126203603.GC17600@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160126203603.GC17600@localhost> Sender: linux-ia64-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Ganapatrao Kulkarni , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-metag@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com, grant.likely@linaro.org, leif.lindholm@linaro.org, rfranz@cavium.com, ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, msalter@redhat.com, robh+dt@kernel.org, steve.capper@linaro.org, hanjun.guo@linaro.org, al.stone@linaro.org, arnd@arndb.de, pawel.moll@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com, ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, galak@codeaurora.org, rjw@rjwysocki.net, lenb@kernel.org, marc.zyngier@arm.com, lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com, bhelgaas@google.com, tony.luck@intel.com, fenghua.yu@intel.com, james.hogan@imgtec.com, benh@kernel.crashing.o List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 02:36:04PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > Subject is "arm64/arm, numa, dt: adding ..." What is the significance > of the "arm" part? The other patches only mention "arm64". > > General comment: the code below has little, if anything, that is > actually arm64-specific. Maybe this is the first DT-based NUMA > platform? I don't see other similar code for other arches, so maybe > it's too early to try to generalize it, but we should try to avoid > adding duplicates of this code if/when other arches do show up. Having it in the core code would allow us to share it with arch/arm/ fairly straightforwardly. Will