Re: Board level compatibility matching

["Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>]

On 7/31/08, Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 04:49:49PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
>  > On 7/31/08, Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> wrote:
>  > > This topic keeps coming up, so it is probably time to address it once
>  > >  and for all.
>  > >
>  > >  When it comes to machine level support in arch/powerpc, there seems to
>  > >  me that there are two levels or machine support.
>  > >
>  > ......
>  > >
>  > >  Thoughts?
>  > >  g.
>  >
>  >
>  > As part of this, how can we going to solve the problem with triggering
>  > the load of a board specific machine/fabric driver in a generic way?
>
>
> That really is a separate problem.  We *could* do this with a board
>  specific powerpc machine driver, but I don't think it is the best
>  solution.
>
>  I'm still thinking that the drivers module_init() function could check
>  the top level board model property and decide whether or not to load
>  based on that.

You're assuming the driver is compiled in.

If the drivers are on initrd selection has to happen via the normal
device/driver matching process. Search for a device in the alias table
of the drive file.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com