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From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/5] drivers: memory: Introduce Marvell EBU Device Bus driver
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 15:32:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201304061532.06280.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130405214510.GB16221@obsidianresearch.com>

On Friday 05 April 2013, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> I look at this and sort of go 'hmm'. These are basically register
> offsets into the block starting at 0xd0010400. I don't see any
> registers that are shared between targets. It would be simpler to keep
> each target as a seperate node and seperate driver instance.
> 
> Combining that idea with the suggestion for target-id centric mbus DT
> binding:
> 
> bootcs at d0010400 {
>    compatible = "marvell,armada370-devbus";
>    ranges = <0 MAPDEF_BOOTCS 0x1000>
>    reg = <MAPDEF_INTERNAL + 0x10400 0x8>;  // boot cs register set
>    devbus,dev-width = <1>;
>    [..] etc
> 
>    rom at 0 {
>       reg = <0 0x1000>
>    }
> }

+1

Good idea


	Arnd

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-04-06 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-05 21:11 [PATCH v2 0/5] Device Bus support for Marvell EBU SoC Ezequiel Garcia
2013-04-05 21:11 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] drivers: memory: Introduce Marvell EBU Device Bus driver Ezequiel Garcia
2013-04-05 21:45   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-04-05 22:09     ` Ezequiel Garcia
2013-04-06 13:32     ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2013-04-05 21:11 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] ARM: mvebu: Add Device Bus support for Armada 370/XP SoC Ezequiel Garcia
2013-04-05 21:11 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] ARM: mvebu: Add support for NOR flash device on Armada XP-GP board Ezequiel Garcia
2013-04-05 21:11 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] ARM: mvebu: Add support for NOR flash device on Openblocks AX3 board Ezequiel Garcia
2013-04-05 21:12 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] ARM: mvebu: Add Device Bus and CFI flash memory support to defconfig Ezequiel Garcia

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