Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 17/35] pl011: Initialize serial from ACPI SPCR table

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ian,

On 05/02/2015 19:42, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 21:57 +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
>
> > I believe that most of the SPCR parsing should be generic, so maybe you
> > could extend the DEVICE interface to handle the ACPI case.
> Extending DT_DEVICE would be confusing IMHO. The answer is probably a
> similar but parallel ACPI_DEVICE mechanism, perhaps sharing some
> underlying infrastructure with DT_DEVICE.
I was thinking to rename DT_DEVICE into something more meaningful. 
Because infine, DT_DEVICE_START/DT_DEVICE_END doesn't do anything DT 
specific but defined the a printed name and the device class.
So we can extend the device framework without adding too much new code.

Regards,

--
Julien Grall

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