[PATCH 3/5] ARM: vexpress: Add DT support in v2m
Pawel Moll
pawel.moll at arm.com
Thu Nov 17 04:55:06 EST 2011
On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 17:50 +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> Come to think of it, is the problem here that we're trying to describe
> the _motherboard_ using the compatible property on the root node.
> This is why I talked about universal/generic features -- the set of
> features common to all platforms sharing a single motherboard
> configuration.
>
> Arguably that's wrong, and that compatible property belongs on the
> motherboard node itself, so (excuse the random syntax):
>
> / {
> compatible = "arm,vexpress-v2p-ca9", "arm,vexpress";
>
> motherboard {
> compatible = "arm,vexpress-v2m-legacy", "simple-bus";
> };
> };
> If putting a suitable compatible property on the motherboard node is
> feasible, it should work for this case.
Yep, that works for me :-) Probably even easier to implement than custom
property.
I'll get it into the code tomorrow.
Cheers!
Paweł
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