ARM topic: Is DT on ARM the solution, or is there something better?

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Tue Nov 19 08:54:32 EST 2013


On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 12:45:19 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 05:21:54PM -0400, Rob Clark wrote:
> > ahh, ok.  Yeah, we do need some way to make this easier, as it is a
> > too-common pattern.  I do think we do need a way to know if something
> > is missing because it isn't there vs it hasn't been probed yet.  Ie.
> > late_initcall() is not the awesome solution.
> 
> On this topic, I now have a solution to this which is not DRM specific,
> nor is it DT specific.
> 
> It's a core piece of code which gathers up the struct device pointers,
> and a callback for the master device to assemble the components and
> indicate when the master is complete.

That's pretty clean. I think that will work nicely.

g.




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