Hi Arnaud, > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Gabor Juhos <juhosg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> This patch adds a generic solution to support multiple machines based on >> a given SoC within a single kernel image. It is implemented already for >> several other architectures but MIPS has no generic support for that yet. >> > Is this the way `arch/mips' wants to go to support multiple machine > within a same kernel image ? I don't know yet what will be the chosen way. > Flattened Device Tree is the other way to achieve that. I remind the latter > being proposed by Felix Fietkau on #openwrt. FDT makes sense when the bootloader supports that. FDT makes sense when the bootloader supports that, but i'm not aware of any AR71xx/AR724x/AR913x based board which has such bootloader. Additionally, the device-tree support for MIPS has been added only recently and none of the existing MIPS boards are using that yet AFAIK. If that will be widely used we can consider to switch to that later. Regards, Gabor
