Hi,
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Most other `system bus' hardware doesn't have to be probed (in the ISA
bang-a-few-ports-and-we'll-see sense) on m68k. We use
{amiga,atari,mac}_hw_present to find out if something exists.
So we could easily have in arch/*/config.c:
if ({AMIGA,ATARI,MAC}HW_PRESENT(XXX))
register_XXX_device();
if ({AMIGA,ATARI,MAC}HW_PRESENT(YYY))
register_YYY_device();
...
For XXX, YYY = GRAPHICS, KEYBOARD, BUILTIN_SCSI, ...
and we have our `system bus'. Devices could be numbered just starting from
1 (or use the {amiga,atari,mac}_hw_present numbers? But we don't need
devices for all of them, at least on Amiga), as we control what's there
anyway. Module alias would then be of the form `{amiga,atari,mac}:%u'.
See why I don't want to call it `host' or `m68k'?
Hmm, maybe we should call it `host' or `m68k', to make it even more generic
and use `host:{amiga,atari,mac}%u' for module aliases? One day other
platforms may want to start using it, too...
I'd tend to use a single system/platform bus if possible.
Exporting an internal enumaration is IMO a bad idea, if you don't have bus
specific specifier, please don't make anything up. Just give them normal
names (e.g. amiga_mouse) and then you can use a single bus to organize
them.
bye, Roman
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