Re: Loading drivers based on board identification

2008-06-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 02:31:03PM -0700, Stephen Neuendorffer wrote: > I'm very interested in trying to factor out board data from the device > tree, but for slightly different reasons, I think. (Although I don't > exactly understand what you're proposing...) Sorry, I should have gone into a *l

RE: Loading drivers based on board identification

2008-06-17 Thread Stephen Neuendorffer
f the board. I don't yet have a proposal, but I'd be curious to hear your thoughts. Steve > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linuxppc-dev- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Brown > Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 1:27 PM > To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs

Loading drivers based on board identification

2008-06-17 Thread Mark Brown
Recently there's been quite a bit of discussion surrounding how to set up machine specific hardware that can't readily be represented in the device tree. I was wondering if one way of solving these problems might be to provide a mechanism for drivers to load based on board type rather than by bind