[PATCH 1/3] arm64: topology: Add support for topology DT bindings

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 03:01:18PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:13:53AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > One thing that occurs to me with this - if we've always got a DT even if
> > we are booting with ACPI that might confuse code that implements
> > handling for firmware idioms.

> The DT presented on an ACPI-capable system only contains the chosen
> node (I guess the DT will not even be unflattened) .So the topology
> code would check for DT, if not it would check for ACPI (or the other
> way around) and only after that fall back to hardware MPIDR. I'm not
> sure whether current ACPI gives us rich enough information about
> topology like DT, in which case it could simply use MPIDR.

Sorry, this isn't related to topology - it's to do with other code that
checks if a DT was present and makes decisions based on that.  So long
as of_have_populated_dt() doesn't report true things should be fine but
it's something to watch out for.
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