From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org,
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm/dt: Add SoC detection macros
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 02:46:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110918004615.GC16141@game.jcrosoft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3353131.FJY7smc8i5@wuerfel>
On 22:56 Sat 17 Sep , Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Saturday 17 September 2011 20:19:07 Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> >
> > I agree about it I just mean that if you have the same board with 2 SoC which
> > are pin to pin compatible detect the soc type will be usefull as the soc
> > resource may not be the same
>
> In that scenario, you would put all SOC specific data into one .dtsi
> file and all board data into another .dtsi file and then create a
> description for the combination using a trivial .dts file with two
> include statements. This is all solved outside of the kernel already,
> so there is no need for infrastructure in the kernel.
except in this case you must have 2 machine id which can be avoided if you can
detect the soc at kernel level
Best Regards,
J.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-18 0:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-09 8:02 [PATCH] arm/dt: Add SoC detection macros Allen Martin
[not found] ` <1315555339-12685-1-git-send-email-amartin-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-09 16:45 ` Olof Johansson
2011-09-17 10:28 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-09-17 10:34 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
[not found] ` <20110917103457.GP28104-RQcB7r2h9QmfDR2tN2SG5Ni2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-17 11:23 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
[not found] ` <20110917112321.GE16381-l+eeeJia6m9vn6HldHNs0ANdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-17 18:19 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
[not found] ` <20110917181907.GA16141-RQcB7r2h9QmfDR2tN2SG5Ni2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-17 20:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-18 0:46 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD [this message]
[not found] ` <20110918004615.GC16141-RQcB7r2h9QmfDR2tN2SG5Ni2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-18 9:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-19 17:26 ` Allen Martin
[not found] ` <3C7A7ACA8617D24290826EC008B5CD083E17B00988-lR+7xdUAJVNDw2glCA4ptUEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-19 20:08 ` Olof Johansson
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