[PATCH, RFC] default machine descriptor for multiplatform

Santosh Shilimkar santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Fri Feb 1 06:47:33 EST 2013


On Thursday 31 January 2013 11:21 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> This is what I think it would look like to do a default platform
> with an empty machine descriptor on ARM. It makes the few required
> entries in the descriptor optional by using the new irqchip_init()
> and clocksource_of_init() functions as defaults, and adds
> a fallback for the DT case to customize_machine to probe all
> the default devices.
>
> For the case that CONFIG_MULTIPLATFORM is enabled, it then
> adds a machine descriptor that never matches any machine but
> is used as a fallback if nothing else matches.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>
This is indeed a nice update towards consolidation. Though
on OMAP, we need to do some work to effectively get rid
of machine, time and irq inits. Will add this task in my
TODO queue.

Regards,
Santosh




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