Machine ID question

[Alexander Stein]

On Sunday 20 February 2011, 14:04:20 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 04:12:16PM +0100, Alexander Stein wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 February 2011, 09:29:15 Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 02:23:07PM -0700, John Linn wrote:
> > > > I used the form to create a new machine ID for the new Xilinx
> > > > platform in anticipation of
> > > > the code making it into the mainline sometime in the future.
> > > > 
> > > > The proposed patches are using ARCH_XILINX in the Kconfig.
> > > 
> > > You should use MACH_XILINX in the patches.  There are some ARCH_... in
> > > the machine db, but I think nowadays you cannot (and should not) create
> > > them there.
> > 
> > Uhm, the last entry in the db was created today (14th Feb). Is there a
> > reason why there no new entries should be created?
> 
> huh?
> 
> The machine registry hands out MACH_foo identifiers.  It used to hand
> them out as ARCH_foo identifiers, but we decided that was misleading -
> it's dealing with machines, not architectures.  So a MACH_ prefix is
> more correct than an ARCH_ prefix.

Ah, without that knowledge Uwe's mail was a bit misleading.
Thanks for clarification.

Alexander