Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758408Ab3HMXd7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Aug 2013 19:33:59 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:37952 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753052Ab3HMXd6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Aug 2013 19:33:58 -0400 Message-ID: <520AC1FE.1030600@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:32:14 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Gibson CC: "jonsmirl@gmail.com" , Russell King - ARM Linux , Richard Cochran , Mark Rutland , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" , Ian Campbell , Pawel Moll , Stephen Warren , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Tomasz Figa , "rob.herring@calxeda.com" , Domenico Andreoli , Jason Gunthorpe , Arend van Spriel , Mark Brown , Olof Johansson , mbizon@freebox.fr, Dave P Martin , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] DT bindings as ABI [was: Do we have people interested in device tree janitoring / cleanup?] References: <20130725175702.GC22291@e106331-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <1999586.84BnWE5EUh@thinkpad> <20130731191209.GA8027@netboy> <1409617.9untvfnOTJ@flatron> <20130731200017.GC8027@netboy> <20130731201457.GA24642@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20130731204817.GC24642@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20130802035027.GA19115@voom.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20130802035027.GA19115@voom.redhat.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 888 Lines: 26 On 08/01/2013 08:50 PM, David Gibson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 05:26:47PM -0400, jonsmirl@gmail.com > wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 04:37:36PM -0400, jonsmirl@gmail.com >> wrote: > [snip] >> Alternatively you may be of the belief that it is impossible to >> get rid of the board specific code. But x86 doesn't have any of >> it, why should ARM? > > Sure x86 has board specific code. It's just that x86 basically > only has one board - PC. > That is one aspect (hardware standardization)... but it is more to it than that. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/