[PATCH 5/6] ARM: dts: Add basic dts include files for Samsung S3C64xx SoCs

Kukjin Kim kgene.kim at samsung.com
Fri Jan 25 14:15:48 EST 2013


Tomasz Figa wrote:

[...]

> > Well, the number of CPU types does not grow rapidly.  It will be much
> > less than one per SoC -- so keeping the list up to date shouldn't be
> > that much effort.
> >
> > For ARM1176JZF-S, it could make sense for the comatible list to be
> >
> > 	"arm,arm1176jzf-s", "arm,arm1176"
> >
> > ...since the differences between 1176 variants are software probeable
> > (i.e., whether there is an FPU or not).  AFAIK the J, Z apply to all
> > ARM1176, and the -S (synthesisable RTL) is nothing to do with software.
> > The kernel probably only really needs to know "arm,arm1176".
> 
> OK. So the conclusion is that I should change the cpus node to following:
> 
>        cpus {
>                cpu {

cpu at 0 { ?

>                        compatible = "arm,arm1176jzf-s", "arm,arm1176";
>                };
>        };
> 
> Am I right?
> 
I think so :-)

- Kukjin




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