Messages in this thread | | | From | Grant Likely <> | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:02:34 -0700 | Subject | Re: [sodaville] [PATCH TIP 02/14] x86: Add device tree support |
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On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:31 AM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> wrote: > * Grant Likely | 2011-02-16 14:31:26 [-0700]: > >>> +config X86_OF >>> + bool "Support for device tree" >>> + select OF >>> + select OF_EARLY_FLATTREE >>> + ---help--- >>> + Device tree support on X86. >>> + >> >>On ARM and MIPS, this is called 'config USE_OF'. It would be nice to have >>some commonality. Maybe I should move the user-visible option to >>drivers/of/Kconfig. Or perhaps I should just make CONFIG_OF itself >>user visible. >> >>thoughts? > > We could make CONFIG_OF depend on CONFIG_HAVE_OF_SUPPORT and let OF > select OF_EARLY_FLATTREE if ARCH_WANT_EARLY_FLATTREE for instance. So > that part would work in a generic way. > > For OF-only platforms you would have to go to drivers/of > before you can enable the specific SoC/board. So it could lead to > something like "first enable scsi disk before you can enable usb > storage".
That's definitely not desirable. Currently ARM and MIPS boards that need it are force-selecting USE_OF which pretty much solves the problem. The option is always user- > > I like it :) For now I rename to USE_OF.
okay.
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