linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] capebus moving omap

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Message-ID: <CACxGe6ubcRqDEGyRbNmwvAMGg5ujAKvPRWe9Vmd9tiHeB7=qNw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 5 Nov 2012 14:34:01 +0000
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	Pantelis Antoniou <panto@...oniou-consulting.com>
Cc:	"Cousson, Benoit" <b-cousson@...com>,
	Koen Kooi <koen@...inion.thruhere.net>,
	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>, Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Matt Porter <mporter@...com>, Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@...com>,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com>,
	Paul Walmsley <paul@...an.com>,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] capebus moving omap_devices to mach-omap2

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Pantelis Antoniou
<panto@...oniou-consulting.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 5, 2012, at 1:22 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Pantelis Antoniou
>> <panto@...oniou-consulting.com> wrote:
>>> Assuming that we do work on a DT object format, and that the runtime resolution mechanism is approved,
>>> then I agree that this part of the capebus patches can be dropped and the functionality assumed by generic
>>> DT core.
>>>
>>> The question is that this will take time, with no guarantees that this would be acceptable from
>>> the device tree maintainers. So I am putting them in the CC list, to see what they think about it.
>>
>> This is actually exactly the direction I want to go with DT, which the
>> ability to load supplemental DT data blobs from either a kernel module
>> or userspace using the firmware loading infrastructure.
>>
>> g.
>
> Hi Grant,
>
> That's pretty much our use case.
>
> Regards

Good. I'm about 80% though putting together a project plan of what is
required to implement this. I'll post it for RFC shortly. I would
appreciate feedback and help on flushing out the design.

g.
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