Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:59:28 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Rafa=B3_Jaworowski?= <raj@semihalf.com> To: "M.Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: arm@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Code review request: boards on AT91 Message-ID: <04BDAB4F-CF02-4CE6-90D8-E03EDC1CC8CC@semihalf.com> In-Reply-To: <20081125.104452.535842403.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On 2008-11-25, at 18:44, M. Warner Losh wrote: > I'm trying a little experiment. I'm moving the board support for the > different sets of boards we support to their own file. This is the > first step in moving to supporting multiple boards more easily. > There's a number of gross hacks to make this work now in at91 land, > and I'd like to clean them up. The mv port is much cleaner, but we > still likely need some way to identify boards and get the right board > support code called. In Linux land, all ARM boot loaders are expected > to pass in a machine type, which is used to do the multiplexing. > Something similar in FreeBSD would be useful (and not just for ARM). Hi Warner, While I understand your point about systems with simplistic bootloaders, which cannot provide enough config data to kernel, we should not see the machine ID model as a final solution for more capable environments. I guess we all agree that for those more capable systems we need some really extensible mechanism (device tree type), as discussed previously :-) > If anybody wants me to write up where I'm going with this, or answer > any question, please feel free to ask. Also, comments would be nice. I was dreaming once about all-generic initarm() that would have KOBJ- based dispatcher, but am not sure this wouldn't cause some chicken-and- egg issues as some parts of the infrastructure might not be available at such early stages, but didn't investigate this too close, any thoughts? But anyways, even a simple scheme with common logic and function ptrs, which each platform variation would implement their own routines (or use generic), would improve the ARM init code significantly. Rafalhome | help
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