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code, and need to be reworked to allow multiplatform kernels.  irq
controllers (or at least the root ones) are initialized with (struct
machine_desc*)->init_irq().  lldebug is currently selected at build
time so that it is available right from head.S.  That's a pretty small
list.  Everything else is just another device, and I don't see
fiddling about with early registration or fiddling with init order to
be a maintainable approach in the long run.  Doing so means that for
each system, someone has to /choose/ which devices are special, and
the decision could be different for each board, and for each kernel
version.  It would be far better to have a driver model that treats
all devices as peers, and is intelligent enough to handle ordering
issues gracefully.

This isn't a big deal for non-DT because using individual board .c
files makes it easy to encode those per-board decisions, whereas the
DT model is a whole lot simpler if a generic & consistent approach can
be used.

g.


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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.