[PATCH 1/1] ARM: Exynos: Add generic compatible string

[Sachin Kamat]

On 25 February 2014 06:22, Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25.02.2014 01:35, Kukjin Kim wrote:
>>
>> On 02/24/14 21:03, Sachin Kamat wrote:
>>>
>>> On 21 February 2014 21:01, Tomasz Figa<t.figa at samsung.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 21.02.2014 16:21, Tomasz Figa wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 21.02.2014 15:48, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Friday 21 February 2014 14:18:49 Tomasz Figa wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Now that we have a broader agreement on this, I think we can go
>>>>>>>> ahead with the
>>>>>>>> following steps as an initial approach:
>>>>>>>> 1. Have a common machine file for both exynos4 and 5 files,
>>>>>>>> mach-exynos-dt.c.
>>>>>>>> 2. Introduce a generic compatible string "samsung,exynos".
>>
>>
>> Well, I think, we need to consider to use compatible string
>> "samsung,exynos" again because "exynos" name can be used on ARMv8 as
>> well and I don't want to say that generic/common something is always
>> good. So IMHO still using exynos4 and exynos5 would be better.
>
>
> You can create a new compatible string (e.g. "samsung,exynos-armv8") for
> ARMv8 Exynos if support for one in mainline shows up and/or simply use
> another name for ARMv7 Exynos (e.g. "samsung,exynos-armv7").

I think "samsung,exynos-armv7" would be better in case we need to
distinguish between
v7 and v8.

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With warm regards,
Sachin