From: laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com (Laurent Pinchart)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] ARM: shmobile: r8a7778: add Ether DT support
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:11:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2922765.My7X58lhxd@avalon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1378135954.3321.5.camel@hornet>
Hi Pawe?,
On Monday 02 September 2013 16:32:34 Pawel Moll wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 15:18 +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.txt mentions it, as well as a
> > couple of other DT bindings document, but there's no clear documentation
> > of what device_type should be for network device, and whether the property
> > is mandatory or optional. Clarifying the documentation would be great.
>
> It's documented in the ePAPR spec:
>
> "The device_type property was used in IEEE 1275 to describe the device?s
> FCode programming model. Because ePAPR does not have FCode, new use of
> the property is deprecated, and it should be included only on cpu and
> memory nodes for compatibility with IEEE 1275?derived device trees."
Thank you for the clarification.
> The bottom line is - don't use it, unless you've good good reasons?
I'll let Sergei share his opinion on whether we've got good reasons :-)
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-03 12:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-31 23:11 [PATCH 0/4] Add Ether DT support for R8A7778/BOCK-W reference board Sergei Shtylyov
2013-08-31 23:15 ` [PATCH 1/4] ARM: shmobile: r8a7778: add Ether DT support Sergei Shtylyov
2013-09-02 13:14 ` Laurent Pinchart
2013-09-02 14:05 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-09-02 14:18 ` Laurent Pinchart
2013-09-02 15:32 ` Pawel Moll
2013-09-03 12:11 ` Laurent Pinchart [this message]
2013-09-03 13:53 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-09-03 15:17 ` Magnus Damm
2013-09-03 18:27 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-09-04 5:35 ` Magnus Damm
2013-09-04 9:39 ` Laurent Pinchart
2013-09-05 6:03 ` Simon Horman
2013-08-31 23:18 ` [PATCH 2/4] ARM: shmobile: r8a7778: add Ether clock for DT case Sergei Shtylyov
2013-08-31 23:22 ` [PATCH 3/4] ARM: shmobile: bockw-reference: add Ether DT support Sergei Shtylyov
2013-08-31 23:24 ` [PATCH 4/4] ARM: shmobile: BOCK-W reference: add Ether PFC settings Sergei Shtylyov
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