Re: [PATCH 01/11] OMAP2+: Add SoC specific map_io functions

Nicolas Pitre
2012-05-14T19:55:05Z

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On Mon, 14 May 2012, Cousson, Benoit wrote:

> Salut Thomas,
>
> Sorry for the delay.
>
> On 5/4/2012 5:59 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > Hello Benoit,
> >
> > Le Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:23:09 +0200,
> > Benoit Cousson<b-cousson@ti.com> a écrit :
> >
> > > Add SoC specific map_io function to be used by the generic DT
> > > board file. This is an intermediate step before having some
> > > generic DT aware map_io function.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Benoit Cousson<b-cousson@ti.com>
> > > Cc: Tony Lindgren<tony@atomide.com>
> >
> > Do you know if some progress has been made on having a generic DT aware
> > map_io function, or is the per-SoC ->map_io() function still the
> > recommended way of handling SoC having different requirements of static
> > mappings at boot time?
>
> Mmm, Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm not sure people are really pushing to store that
> inside DT. But to be honest, I don't really know :-)

In general, static vs dynamic IO mappings are just some Linux
implementation details. This distinction does not belong in DT.

Nicolas