Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Walleij <> | Date | Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:51:12 +0100 | Subject | Re: How to ensure other module/driver is initialized? |
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 5:40 PM, Ian Pilcher <arequipeno@gmail.com> wrote:
> Device tree presents even greater problems. It's not clear to me that > device tree even works with x86_64, and even if it does, I'm almost > positive that none of the "generic" distributions are going to support > it. > > If my understanding of device tree is inaccurate, please do let me > know. I'd definitely like to replace the "board" module with a > device tree description if it's possible.
Sorry for my ignorance. I thought this was some ARM or MIPS thing.
It should indeed come in as a board file for x86 systems, unless they have ACPI to do what DT does on other platforms, which modern systems do.
The way on these systems is to put a file in drivers/platform/x86/* I think, but I know too little about x86 for that.
I do think it'll be accepted upstream nevertheless, we do not really count users but rather check whether the code is nice and maintainable.
Yours, Linus Walleij
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