From: olof@lixom.net (Olof Johansson)
To: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Cc: "linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 86xx: Enable the AC97 interface on 8641D board.
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 12:26:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070503172657.GA32312@lixom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1178209046.17201.55.camel@ld0161-tx32>
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:17:26AM -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 11:10, Olof Johansson wrote:
>
> >
> > This sounds like something that firmware should take care of, not
> > hardcoded in the board code. Seems like the device is just a PCI device
> > that doesn't have a device tree entry.
>
> Well, it's not a PCI device at all.
Really? You use a PCI quirk to manipulate it.
> > Why not do this in u-boot instead?
>
> Why do it there? We'd have to do it _again_ in Linux
> if we didn't come in from U-Boot anyway.
The same argument could be used to motivate not doing any kind of board
inits in any firmware and do it all from the board code in linux.
Don't you guys use M1575 on other eval boards too, so you'll need the
same board quirk duplicated?
-Olof
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-03 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-02 21:53 [PATCH] 86xx: Enable the AC97 interface on 8641D board Jon Loeliger
2007-05-03 14:44 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-03 15:55 ` Jon Loeliger
2007-05-03 16:01 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-03 16:03 ` Jon Loeliger
2007-05-03 16:10 ` Olof Johansson
2007-05-03 16:17 ` Jon Loeliger
2007-05-03 16:19 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-03 17:28 ` Olof Johansson
2007-05-09 16:14 ` Jon Loeliger
2007-05-09 16:19 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-03 17:26 ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2007-05-03 17:38 ` Scott Wood
2007-05-06 22:42 ` Matt Sealey
2007-05-10 5:16 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-10 15:45 ` Jon Loeliger
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