[PATCH v2] ARM: remove name from machine_desc for DT platforms

[Rob Herring]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 08:46:14AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
>> We probably have at least a dozen machine_desc's we are close to being
>> able to remove (sunxi, picoxcell, highbank, dove, rockchip, virt,
>> several sh-mobile). There's also more that probably can be combined
>> together which will change the string in /proc/cpuinfo.
>
> I hope not (for dove) because it's one of the few ARM platforms I have
> here which run a "modern" distribution.  That's rather important,
> because I seem to find things that no one else finds, not even Olof's
> wonderful build system when running against distro stuff.
>
> It also means that work on sorting out the componentising of DRM stuff
> loses a test platform.
>
> Yes, I boot non-DT kernels on the Cubox because its the only way to get
> full support there.  Yes, I maintain a separate kernel tree for doing
> this but removing non-DT support for Dove will cripple my efforts to
> keep that up to date, and continue pushing forward on getting the various
> drivers into shape.
>
> However, maybe the whole point _is_ to keep all the fun stuff on these
> platforms out of the kernel tree...

I was referring only to DT enabled machine_desc's. I don't think we'll
touch non-DT machine_desc's. An example is combining several per SoC
DT based machine_desc's into a single SoC family machine_desc.
Ideally, we'd get rid of the machine_desc altogether, but that may not
be possible.

Rob