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

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:27:08 +0100
Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:27:03AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > > To be honest I'd actually be inclined to go more towards the way the
> > > non-DT embedded platforms have gone and just ignore the data we get
> > > from SFI as much as possible and have board specific initialisation in
> > > code; it's boring and repetitive but it's also clear and *relatively*
> > > robust.
> 
> > And even more unmaintainable. Won't happen.
> 
> So what is the plan for coping with OEM systems?  Right now the code
> makes no provision at all that I can see for system-specific handling
> of the SFI data which seems very optimistic.

There are various system specific drivers which have their own sfi entry
and name. Telling platforms apart is a problem with SFI but the latest
firmware also supports DMI so we can get platform identification via the
normal PC interfaces.

Alan
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