[RFC PATCH] ARM: OMAP3630: Add generic machine descriptor

[Felipe Balbi]

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 10:16:48AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 09:19:02AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
> >> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Nishanth Menon <nm at ti.com> wrote:
> >> > An alternative approach may be to (for all SoCs):
> >> > 1. define every SoC entry - ti,omap3430 ti,omap3630...
> >> > 2. have a generic omap3_init which uses "if (of_machine_is_compatible("ti,omap3630"))"
> >> > to invoke the appropriate omap3xxx_init_early.
> >>
> >> Yes, this would be better, but you can do add a DT_MACHINE as in this
> >> patch but have ti,omap3630 as the dt_compat table. Then there's no
> >> need to add runtime checks.
> >
> > I was going to reply that adding of_machine_is_compatible("ti,omap3630")
> > would help in some situations, but guess it's already tainted ;-)
> 
> Oh, if it's just a few checks, then by all means go down that route. I
> didn't look at the code to see how much it would be.
> 
> But if a new DT_MACHINE is added, then it should definitely be based
> on ti,omap3630 instead of listing all the boards.

the idea was to CPU compatible property to conditionally enable known
erratas workarounds. In some cases, Revision register can't be trusted,
so instead of creating per-errata DT properties (since that'd be
describing the SW, in a way), I thought of using
of_machine_is_compatible() checks, but that assumes CPU compatible is
"correct".

cheers

-- 
balbi
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