[RFC] Support for 'Coda' video codec IP.

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:01:26AM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 09:51:32AM +0200, javier Martin wrote:

> > Our platfrom, 'visstrim_m10' doesn't currently support devicetree yet,
> > so it would be highly difficult for us to test it at the moment.
> > Couldn't you add devicetree support in a later patch?

> I try to motivate people moving to devicetree. At some point I'd like to
> get rid of the platform based boards in the tree. Adding new platform
> seems like delaying this instead of working towards a platform board
> free Kernel.
> Any other opinions on this?

The approach a lot of platforms have been taking is that it's OK to keep
on maintaining existing boards using board files (especially for trivial
things like adding new devices).