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From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel•com>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab•ca>
Cc: devicetree-discuss@ozlabs•org, linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org>
Subject: Re: Board level compatibility matching
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:39:21 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <489222F9.2020806@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa686aa40807311319k44d270b0t4fa9cb0e6523339@mail.gmail.com>

Grant Likely wrote:

> Doing so should simplify adding new board ports.  In many cases it
> would just involve dropping in a new .dts file.  However, it retains
> the flexability of overriding generic code with platform specific
> fixups as the need arises.

If it makes it easier for board vendors to do a clean port, you get a 
vote from me.

I've seen a large amount of vendor code from that needed a lot of 
massaging before it would play nice with support for similar boards from 
other vendors--not to mention how ugly it looked with all the 
board-specific ifdefs.

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-31 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-31 20:19 Board level compatibility matching Grant Likely
2008-07-31 20:39 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2008-07-31 20:49 ` Jon Smirl
2008-07-31 20:52   ` Grant Likely
2008-07-31 20:58     ` Jon Smirl
2008-08-01  2:47       ` David Gibson
2008-08-01  3:06         ` Jon Smirl
2008-08-01  3:30           ` David Gibson
2008-08-01  4:00             ` Jon Smirl
2008-08-01  4:25               ` David Gibson
2008-08-01  4:37                 ` Jon Smirl
2008-08-01  6:22                   ` David Gibson
2008-07-31 20:59 ` Scott Wood
2008-07-31 21:09   ` Grant Likely
2008-08-01  2:54 ` David Gibson
2008-08-01  3:25   ` Grant Likely
2008-08-01  3:38     ` David Gibson
2008-08-01  4:25     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-01 12:06       ` Josh Boyer
2008-08-01 12:28         ` Josh Boyer
2008-08-01 14:30         ` Grant Likely
2008-08-01 22:48         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-02  0:07           ` Josh Boyer
2008-08-01 14:27       ` Grant Likely
2008-08-01 15:11         ` Josh Boyer
2008-08-01 16:01           ` M. Warner Losh
2008-08-01 16:24             ` Grant Likely
2008-08-01 22:54         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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