[PATCH 1/9] powerpc/44x: Add PowerPC 44x simple platform support

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Aug 21 03:35:00 EST 2008


On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:19:02 -0700
Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com> wrote:

>  > Except that logically doesn't make much sense.  Why would you have a
>  > list of mpc52xx and 44x boards together?  They require completely
>  > different kernels because the MMU and drive set is entirely different.
>  > 
>  > Or am I totally missing what you are saying?
> 
> Yeah, I wasn't clear -- I meant to add a new helper like
> of_flat_dt_is_compatible_list() (not sure of the name) that takes a node
> and a NULL-terminated array of strings, and then mpc5200_simple_probe()
> can become a one-liner, along with mpc5121_generic_probe(),
> tqm85xx_probe(), ppc44x_probe(), etc.

Ah, I see.

I worry about doing that though.  I don't want to give people the
impression that these boards are "of" compatible.  I want it to be more
"this file supports these explicit platforms and makes no claim on
compatibility between them".

josh



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