Re: Device Tree questions WRT MIPS/Octeon SOCs.

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:42:13AM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> On 10/15/2010 10:30 AM, David VomLehn (dvomlehn) wrote:
> 
> >If this is really a question of needing to dynamically generate the
> >device tree, then you have no choice. It's worth mentioning, though,
> >that the device tree compiler (dtc) does have the ability to include
> >files, making it easier to create and maintain device trees that are
> >static but which share devices.
> 
> Some experimentation will be necessary.  We will have to patch in some
> properties like the Ethernet MAC address as that is stored in a
> separate eeprom.  Also some boards have pluggable I/O modules, so we
> may not know at dtb generation time what is there.

For pluggable modules, rather than patching them in, I'd suggest
including them all and pruning out the ones that aren't present.
That's simpler in the boot up code doing the manipulation.

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