On 09/25/2015 10:18 AM, santosh shilimkar wrote: > On 9/25/2015 7:50 AM, Nishanth Menon wrote: [...] >> But, how about userspace >> needing to know which SoC they are on, without needing to depend on >> board->soc mapping? How do we help resolve that? >> > Why the user space should care about exact SOC ? examples vary - trivial one is: debug tools like omapconf[1] or testing tools like opentest[2] need some standard way to ensure Linux kernel is functional - trusting the least set of parameters is usually what we would prefer. while building a generic distro such as debian or yocto, one prefers NOT to need to do a package build per SoC/perboard - that never scales. instead, you'd like the same application run on different systems dynamically. [1] https://github.com/omapconf/omapconf [2] http://arago-project.org/wiki/index.php/Opentest -- Regards, Nishanth Menon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
