From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Konstantinos Margaritis <markos@codex.gr>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk,
Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>,
Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix sata_sil compilation on non-DMI platforms
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 08:31:44 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1242081104.304.12.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090511194410.46641214@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 19:44 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Ideally the DMI subsystem should be provided wrappers for platforms
> > without DMI, rendering patches like this unnecessary.
>
> Interesting question - is the PPC OpenFirmware machine information
> mappable onto the DMI space ? or the various static bits of name
> information in the various ARM and the like machine descriptions.
>
> If not which bits are similar enough we could replace dmi at the high
> level with an abstract interface for system/vendor/... that was ?
The one thing we could try to map would be the device-tree "compatible"
property which would contain vendor,system tuples from more specific to
more generic with which the machine is compatible with.
Of course I would argue the other way around and create a device-tree
from the DMI data :-)
Cheers,
Ben.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-11 22:33 UTC|newest]
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2009-05-11 18:44 ` [PATCH] fix sata_sil compilation on non-DMI platforms Alan Cox
2009-05-11 22:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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