Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: intel-mid: add watchdog platform code for Merrifield

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 04:03:14PM +0200, Alexander Stein wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 April 2014 14:58:48, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > > I'm getting curious: How can I use device-tree on x86(_64)?
> > > Reading the dependencies from CONFIG_OF it can only be used on 32bit systems with some special hardware bases.
> > > So, how to use otherwise?
> > 
> > There isn't any fundamental thing tying device tree to a given
> > architecture or 32bitness, it's just that sane PC architectures use ACPI
> > to enumerate devices, and/or have a discoverable bus architecture.
> > 
> > Some of the phones don't so this now becoems a point of consideration. In
> > fact it's already also used on CE4100 (which is an embedded media SoC
> > found in some TV devices and set-top boxes) and on the OLPC (One laptop
> > per child). There is no intrinsic reason it couldn't be used in other x86
> > special cases.
> > 
> > If its PC shaped however it probably has ACPI and ACPI and DT are not a
> > 1:1 mapping. ACPI has method invocations, and various firmware provided
> > interfaces such as the EC, Device tree is better at some other bits.
> 
> Yep, like SPI devices on embedded x86 hardware.
> 
> > Converting the phones to embedded device tree rather than adding a
> > billion little platform files on the other hand seems to me like a
> > no-brainer.
> 
> I found http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.devicetree/4475. Why didn't that get into mainline?
> 

Isn't that patch set in mainline ?

We are working on a patch set to make DT support on x86 more
widely available. Thierry Reding did some work on it a while ago.
Some of it is upstream, other parts are available in 
	https://github.com/avionic-design/linux/commits/medatom/master

We'll see if and what will be accepted upstream.

Guenter