On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Olof Johansson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Mark Rutland <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Olof, >> >> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 01:52:52AM +0000, Olof Johansson wrote: >>> While the LPAE capability is determined by the kernel today, it is still >>> useful to be able to specify the feature in the device tree. There is >>> precedence from other architectures for this. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <[email protected]> >>> --- >>> >>> My personal motive for this is to be able to tell which boards are >>> work even trying to boot an LPAE kernel on, since we don't disable the >>> platforms that are based on A8/A9 when LPAE is turned on. I'll add dtsi >>> patches for A7/A15-based platforms once the binding is settled. >> >> It would be nice to have this description of why you want to add this in >> the commit message proper. > > Sure.
By the way, I ended up doing it a different way than depending on DT contents, so I don't have a need to push for this now. Still, I think it's worth resolving long-term (how to encode CPU features on ARM as properties), but lower priority. -Olof -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
