While reviewing the ARM DT patches I've come to a misunderstanding of how the specific machine support is meant to be matched with DT.
What Jeremy did is to add a probe_dt method in the mdesc structure, and then the core is calling them in sequence until one of them returns success. now, the "compatible" property is explained here: http://devicetree.org/Device_Tree_Usage#Understanding_the_compatible_Property >From my understanding, this could allow for a kernel that doesn't yet support the specifics of a particular board to still be able to work using basic common support. But for this to work, wouldn't it be necessary for the core code to try to find the best match itself rather than letting each machine's probe_dt decide on their own? Nicolas _______________________________________________ devicetree-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/devicetree-discuss
