[PATCH] fix sata_sil compilation on non-DMI platforms

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 19:44 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Ideally the DMI subsystem should be provided wrappers for platforms 
> > without DMI, rendering patches like this unnecessary.
> 
> Interesting question - is the PPC OpenFirmware machine information
> mappable onto the DMI space ? or the various static bits of name
> information in the various ARM and the like machine descriptions.
> 
> If not which bits are similar enough we could replace dmi at the high
> level with an abstract interface for system/vendor/... that was ?

The one thing we could try to map would be the device-tree "compatible"
property which would contain vendor,system tuples from more specific to
more generic with which the machine is compatible with.

Of course I would argue the other way around and create a device-tree
from the DMI data :-)

Cheers,
Ben.