[RFC PATCH 0/3] Per SoC descriptor

On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

On Thursday 08 September 2011 18:00:09 Marc Zyngier wrote:

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This is my first stab at an idea that has floated around for a while,
which is to have a per-soc descriptor containing most of the SoC
specific operations, which should clear the path a bit more towards
the single zImage holy grail. It's as far as possible from being
perfect, but I thought I'd share it as early as possible and see what
people think of it.

This first patch series introduces the arm_soc_desc structure, adds
per-soc SMP and CPU hotplug operations, and converts both RealView and
VExpress to this new scheme.

Very nice, I definitely like the concept! This is going to be really
helpful reducing the amount of stuff we need in machine descriptors.

Agreed.  And starting up with things that are not already in the 
per-machine descriptor is a good move.  Once this is well established 
then we might consider moving some features over from the machine desc 
to this SOC desc.


Nicolas