[PATCH 5/6] ARM: dts: Add basic dts include files for Samsung S3C64xx SoCs
Kukjin Kim
kgene.kim at samsung.com
Sat Jan 26 06:15:48 EST 2013
Tomasz Figa wrote:
[...]
> > Well, the number of CPU types does not grow rapidly. It will be much
> > less than one per SoC -- so keeping the list up to date shouldn't be
> > that much effort.
> >
> > For ARM1176JZF-S, it could make sense for the comatible list to be
> >
> > "arm,arm1176jzf-s", "arm,arm1176"
> >
> > ...since the differences between 1176 variants are software probeable
> > (i.e., whether there is an FPU or not). AFAIK the J, Z apply to all
> > ARM1176, and the -S (synthesisable RTL) is nothing to do with software.
> > The kernel probably only really needs to know "arm,arm1176".
>
> OK. So the conclusion is that I should change the cpus node to following:
>
> cpus {
> cpu {
cpu at 0 { ?
> compatible = "arm,arm1176jzf-s", "arm,arm1176";
> };
> };
>
> Am I right?
>
I think so :-)
- Kukjin
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