From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, John Rigby <jrigby@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH add immr alias 1/4] powerpc: Teach get_immrbase to use immr alias if it exists.
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:49:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4898BCD3.5050703@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808052243.24001.arnd@arndb.de>
Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 August 2008, John Rigby wrote:
>> This will allow the eventual removal of device_type = "soc"
>> properties in soc nodes.
>
> Stupid question, but why not remove immrbase instead?
>
> It seems that all users can be converted to use a reg
> property of some actual device instead of making assumptions
> about the register layout of the whole SOC.
That wouldn't eliminate the need for the alias, though -- u-boot needs
to find the node to fill in properties.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-05 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-05 20:13 [PATCH add immr alias 1/4] powerpc: Teach get_immrbase to use immr alias if it exists John Rigby
2008-08-05 20:13 ` [PATCH add immr alias 2/4] powerpc: 5121: Add immr alias to MPC5121 ADS device tree John Rigby
2008-08-05 20:13 ` [PATCH add immr alias 3/4] powerpc: 83xx: Add immr aliases to 83xx device trees John Rigby
2008-08-05 20:13 ` [PATCH add immr alias 4/4] powerpc: 8[56]xx: Add immr aliases to 8[56]xx " John Rigby
2008-08-05 21:05 ` [PATCH add immr alias 2/4] powerpc: 5121: Add immr alias to MPC5121 ADS device tree Grant Likely
2008-08-05 21:05 ` Grant Likely
2008-08-05 21:17 ` John Rigby
2008-08-05 21:20 ` Scott Wood
2008-08-05 21:20 ` Scott Wood
2008-08-05 21:38 ` John Rigby
2008-08-05 21:08 ` Scott Wood
2008-08-05 21:12 ` Grant Likely
2008-08-05 21:19 ` Scott Wood
2008-08-05 23:46 ` Anton Vorontsov
2008-08-05 20:43 ` [PATCH add immr alias 1/4] powerpc: Teach get_immrbase to use immr alias if it exists Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-05 20:49 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-08-05 20:50 ` Kumar Gala
2008-08-05 21:08 ` Grant Likely
2008-08-05 21:08 ` Grant Likely
2008-08-06 3:41 ` Stephen Rothwell
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