Re: [PATCH] x86/mrst: add SFI platform device parsing code

[Alan Cox]

> any of this code could ever be made generic.  The spec seems to only
> cover the data structure, and relationships between devices seem to be
> left to whatever convention the firmware writer feels like using, or
> am I missing something?

Not really no. It's basically little more than a component and IRQ list.
The GPIO table in 0.8 exposes the GPIO lines a bit more sanely.

In fact all that SFI provides generically pretty much fits into
platform_foo() already because there is so little - or into the IÂC or
SPI bus data.

Alan
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