[coreboot] Interesting device enumeration problem

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Wed Jul 8 00:59:35 CEST 2009


Myles Watson wrote:
> > With only on/off, yes, it has to be handled in device-specific code.
> 
> We also have not present fwiw.

Ok.


> > Would it make sense to express/expose all different actions in the
> > board configuration?
> 
> I don't know which ones.  It doesn't seem like a very common case.

Yeah, you're right. Typically everything should be enabled and up.

Motivation would be more to make exceptions easy and clear.


> > It was there in the v3 dts, just not
> > standardized.
> 
> Wasn't it handled by the device-specific code based on integer
> values passed from the dts?

Right, but it was still moved to board configuration, which forced
code to become a bit more general. I liked that.


//Peter




More information about the coreboot mailing list