Re: [PATCH] arm/dt: Add SoC detection macros

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-09-18T00:46:15Z

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.