From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:48:04 +1000 From: David Gibson To: Scott Wood Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Introduce new CPM device bindings. Message-ID: <20070831024804.GC19271@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070828201127.GA24068@ld0162-tx32.am.freescale.net> <20070828201619.GB24210@ld0162-tx32.am.freescale.net> <20070829053941.GC3206@localhost.localdomain> <20070829135806.GB30184@ld0162-tx32.am.freescale.net> <20070830005559.GB22844@localhost.localdomain> <20070830054854.GA21533@ld0162-tx32.am.freescale.net> <20070830055812.GB32543@localhost.localdomain> <20070830141046.GA24123@ld0162-tx32.am.freescale.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20070830141046.GA24123@ld0162-tx32.am.freescale.net> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 09:10:46AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 03:58:12PM +1000, David Gibson wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:48:54AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 10:55:59AM +1000, David Gibson wrote: > > > > Am I correct in thinking that it's basically an arch/ppc versus > > > > arch/powerpc thing. In which case couldn't you use CONFIG_PPC_MERGE > > > > instead? > > > > > > The idea was to allow boards to be converted incrementally, as I don't > > > have access to test 100% of the boards that use the CPM code. > > > > Hrm. Right. This is still problematical, because what happens if you > > have both old-binding and new-binding boards configured simultaneously? > > Multiplatform will not be supported for old-binding boards. Hmm, ok. Well, let's try to kill the old binding off as fast as we can, at least the portions that still infect arch/powerpc. -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson