On 12/28/2011 04:51 AM, Alexander Potashev wrote:

On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 11:00 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:

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If you use FDT, you won't need machine ID at all. 

Hi Marek,

You are right, but we have not used FDT for any of our ARM Linux ports
yet (consistency matters.) If we switch to FDT now, a lot of code will
need to be rewritten.

Not if you are only talking about the machine identification. You need a
minimal dts file with a compatible string for the board and add this
string to your machine desc.

DT is a requirement for adding any new ARM platform.

Rob