Renaming MACH_TYPE_KINETIS_K60 into MACH_TYPE_KINETIS

Rob Herring robherring2 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 1 10:51:31 EST 2012


On 12/28/2011 04:51 AM, Alexander Potashev wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 11:00 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> If you use FDT, you won't need machine ID at all. 
> 
> Hi Marek,
> 
> You are right, but we have not used FDT for any of our ARM Linux ports
> yet (consistency matters.) If we switch to FDT now, a lot of code will
> need to be rewritten.

Not if you are only talking about the machine identification. You need a
minimal dts file with a compatible string for the board and add this
string to your machine desc.

DT is a requirement for adding any new ARM platform.

Rob



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