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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:06:12 -0500
From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
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Subject: Re: RFC: top level compatibles for virtual platforms
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On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:59:33 +0900
Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> wrote:

> However, compatible values are cheap and while theoretically any
> hypervisor could create a similar machine, the reality is probably
> subtle difference between the implementations.  I'd rather see the
> compatible reflect the specific implementation.

That's what the hypervisor node is for.  We have a tree, let's use it. :-)

-Scott