On 3/14/2012 3:28 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > No problem, we are all learning things as we are working on them. > > The idea with DT is that you no longer need any board files because all of > the information in those files is now passed as a data structure to the kernel > at boot time. Platforms that are fully converted to DT don't have any > board files but just have one DT_MACHINE_START entry for all of them in > the common platform files. Since spear600 has very little board specific > contents at the moment, it is very easy to get to this point now, and > that will actually help support other boards without having to do more > patches to add board files. > > When this work is completed, we might actually be able to extend the > spear6xx DT code to also support spear3xx and spear13xx, renaming it > to mach-spear. In that case, we would probably need one DT_MACHINE_START > entry for each family and would not be able to actually build 13xx together > with the other ones, but I guess a lot of the infrastructure could be shared. > > I would suggest you read Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.txt > to get a better understanding of what this is all about.
You pointed exactly to the doubt i had. That was very helpful. I really appreciate it. Thanks a lot. -- viresh _______________________________________________ devicetree-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/devicetree-discuss
