Proposal: mach-dt

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Wed Jul 3 10:40:06 EDT 2013


On 03/07/13 15:11, Christopher Covington wrote:
> On 07/03/2013 10:10 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> On 03/07/13 15:03, Christopher Covington wrote:
>>> On 07/03/2013 05:20 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>>> On 03/07/13 09:18, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Alexander,
>>>>
>>>>> More and more platforms are now using devicetree.
>>>>> Ideally the platform code contains only one function "of_platform_populate".
>>>>> My idea is to make a generic architecture (mach-dt) with the call then add support
>>>>> for compatible subarchitectures as they become available in "compatible"-property.
>>>>> Your opinion?
>>>>
>>>> Well, my (admittedly partial) opinion is that mach-virt is an incredibly
>>>> nicer sounding name, 'specially as you can mistype it as mach-triv.
>>>
>>> As mentioned before, I disagree and would love to see the the
>>> virtualization-specific name replaced by something more suitably generic.
>>
>> I think you're missing the point. The right fix would to remove it
>> entirely and make it the basic default. There are patches for that already.
> 
> Where?

There were patches from Arnd (CC-ed) a while ago, moving some of the
mach-virt SMP stuff to smp.c. Don't have the pointers handy, but surely
Arnd knows where they are.

Once SMP is done, the rest should be pretty trivial.

	M.
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