[PATCH] arm: update mach-types

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Fri Dec 10 03:20:20 EST 2010


On 18:53 Fri 10 Dec     , Marc Reilly wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > PLwase specify against which kernel
> It's directly from http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/
> 
> To be honest, I didn't even think about needing to match up against a specific 
> version of the kernel, but I guess it does deserve consideration. 
> From my understanding, the machine numbers are reserved forever and there is a 
> 1:1 correspondence between the mach number and the device itself. It's only 
> the label that may change. So this patch would be bad if someone has changed 
> their machine name, but hasn't changed their code within barebox.
not really sometimes they change so to trac it it's better to have a reference
> 
> I'll leave my thinking there because it's late friday arvo, and smarter minds 
> have probably thought this one out before. :)
> 
> Otherwise, would it be better if I just submitted a "one liner" patch which 
> just adds my new machine?
no we update the whole file we need to be sync with the kernel

Best Regards,
J.



More information about the barebox mailing list