Using devices trees on X86

Stephen Neuendorffer stephen.neuendorffer at xilinx.com
Wed Jun 30 01:56:09 EST 2010



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Rothwell [mailto:sfr at canb.auug.org.au]
> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 7:39 PM
> To: Stephen Neuendorffer
> Cc: grant.likely at secretlab.ca; devicetree-discuss at lists.ozlabs.org;
David Miller;
> sparclinux at vger.kernel.org; Michal Simek;
microblaze-uclinux at itee.uq.edu.au; Benjamin Herrenschmidt;
> Paul Mackerras; linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Subject: Re: Using devices trees on X86
> 
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:57:33 -0700 Stephen Neuendorffer
<stephen.neuendorffer at xilinx.com> wrote:
> >
> > 2) config OF is currently implemented in the architecture code.
This
> > should be non-architecture dependent and selected by the arches that
> > need it.
> >
> > Comments greatly appreciated, in particular if you have
> > likely-to-be-easy-to-get-accepted suggestions for 3), or feel like
> > carefully solving 2) in
> > a way which doesn't bork the existing of-based arches.
> 
> See the following patch set.  Parts 1, 2 and 3 could be applied to the
> respective architecture trees as well as Grant's tree to aleviate some
> conflict problems.  Part 5 could wait until a later time if necessary.
> However, this is relatively trivial, so we could just collect ACKs and
> put it all in Grant's tree and live with any minor pain.
> 
> Having OF in more than one Kconfig file should not cause any problems
as
> long as they are all the same.

Ah, well, that simplifies things.. :) Thanks!

Steve

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