Re: [PATCH] arm/dt: Add SoC detection macros

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On 22:56 Sat 17 Sep     , Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Saturday 17 September 2011 20:19:07 Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > 
> > I agree about it I just mean that if you have the same board with 2 SoC which
> > are pin to pin compatible detect the soc type will be usefull as the soc
> > resource may not be the same
> 
> In that scenario, you would put all SOC specific data into one .dtsi
> file and all board data into another .dtsi file and then create a
> description for the combination using a trivial .dts file with two
> include statements. This is all solved outside of the kernel already,
> so there is no need for infrastructure in the kernel.
except in this case you must have 2 machine id which can be avoided if you can
detect the soc at kernel level

Best Regards,
J.
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