20 May
2005
20 May
'05
6:26 a.m.
On May 18, 2005, at 11:56 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
- name has to be "chosen" - linux,platform : This is your platform number as assigned by the architecture maintainers
Given the seemingly endless embedded boards not developed by "core community" folks, wouldn't it be better for firmware to identify itself with a distributed namespace like "vendor.model" and let the kernel figure out whatever unique number that should be?
Requiring everyone to request a special number from kernel maintainers seems unnecessary. Or perhaps you're trying to enforce tighter development interaction...?
-Hollis