Platform device model drawback

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:51:56AM -0800, Peter Hanson wrote:
> On 11/16/05, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 06:39:49PM -0800, Peter Hanson wrote:
> > > IIRC, Arabella claims to deal nicely with dynamic allocation of
> > > PowerPC resources to Linux devices =>
> > > http://www.arabellasw.com/home.php
> >
> > I don't understand how that pertains to this thread...
> 
> Potential conflict: multiple logical devices competing for the same
> SoC resource.  Converse: similar logical devices supported by
> different resources.  Both cases have been mentioned in this thread,
> with confusion about how to deal with them.
> 
> Does Arabella solve it as claimed?  I don't know.  But dynamic
> allocation doesn't sound crazy.  Maybe some of the code or design can
> even be copied.

Do you have a pointer to their code anywhere?

thanks,

greg k-h