From: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Device tree bindings for Xilinx devices
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:06:22 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071011040622.GE14873@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa686aa40710101925x6b005aa7paaeb072ba492c81f@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 08:25:36PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> On 10/10/07, David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 03:38:02PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
[snip]
> > > "number" seems a bit to generic to me. logical-number seems a bit more
> > > descriptive.
> >
> > We've used 'cell-index' for similar purposes on other 4xx.
>
> Unfortunately, 'cell' has been used in the sense of a logic cell in an
> SoC. In the case of the SystemACE, it is an external chip.
>
> What about "device-number"?
Ok, I misunderstood. If it's not on chip, what significance does this
serial number have? Where would a driver need it?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-11 4:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-08 7:53 [PATCH] Device tree bindings for Xilinx devices Grant Likely
2007-10-10 16:39 ` Grant Likely
2007-10-10 20:38 ` Josh Boyer
2007-10-11 1:38 ` David Gibson
2007-10-11 2:25 ` Grant Likely
2007-10-11 4:06 ` David Gibson [this message]
2007-10-11 4:18 ` Grant Likely
2007-10-11 4:24 ` David Gibson
2007-10-11 4:58 ` Grant Likely
2007-10-11 5:08 ` David Gibson
2007-10-11 5:27 ` Grant Likely
2007-10-12 3:14 ` David Gibson
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