[PATCH 1/3] Documentation: dt: keystone: provide SoC specific compatible flags

santosh shilimkar santosh.shilimkar at oracle.com
Wed Sep 23 11:19:32 PDT 2015


Nishant,

On 9/22/2015 9:08 AM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> Keystone2 devices are used on more platforms than just Texas
> Instruments reference evaluation platforms called EVMs. Providing a
> generic compatible "ti,keystone" is not sufficient to differentiate
> various SoC definitions possible on various platforms. So, provide
> compatible matches for each SoC family by itself.
>
> This allows SoC specific logic to be run time handled based on
> of_machine_is_compatible("ti,k2hk") or as needed for the dependent
> processor instead of needing to use board dependent compatibles that
> are needed now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm at ti.com>
> ---
You need to expand that 'not sufficient' for me. Unless there is
genuine case to support this, I would want to avoid this churn.

Regards,
Santosh



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