From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/11] Add MPC8360EMDS board support
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:52:27 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1159941148.13323.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CE624A83-809E-4180-800E-660A578FFCFC@embeddedalley.com>
> I still think an embedded_feature_call() support in a
> board port would be the best solution to many of these
> complex things we are trying to define in this device
> tree information. In the places where we need some
> kind of board specific support, like hardware set up for
> some peripheral, just do the feature_call, passing enough
> information to indicate what is needed, and let the
> board support do what is necessary. This could be
> setting bits in a BCSR, setting up the processor IO
> ports, enabling power to external logic, etc. This has
> been proven to work well on the PMAC, just extend it
> to be used on embedded boards.
I don't see how a mecanism of feature call at the board support level is
in any way incompatible with the device-tree thing. I'm happy mixing
both on powermac :)
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-04 5:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-21 12:20 [PATCH 10/11] Add MPC8360EMDS board support Li Yang
2006-09-27 6:39 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-09-27 11:56 ` Vitaly Bordug
2006-09-27 12:02 ` Li Yang-r58472
2006-09-27 12:55 ` Vitaly Bordug
2006-09-27 13:09 ` Ben Warren
2006-09-27 13:20 ` Li Yang-r58472
2006-09-27 13:33 ` Kumar Gala
2006-09-28 6:12 ` Li Yang-r58472
2006-09-30 0:49 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-09-27 14:14 ` Jon Loeliger
2006-09-28 6:38 ` Li Yang-r58472
2006-09-27 14:42 ` Dan Malek
2006-09-27 16:22 ` Olof Johansson
2006-09-28 4:10 ` Dan Malek
2006-09-30 15:56 ` Li Yang
2006-10-04 0:40 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-10-04 13:53 ` Dan Malek
2006-10-04 17:28 ` Tim Bird
2006-10-05 0:27 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-10-05 6:29 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-10-04 6:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-04 14:48 ` Dan Malek
2006-10-04 23:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-05 0:03 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-10-05 0:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-05 0:16 ` Vitaly Bordug
2006-10-05 6:21 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-10-05 6:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-05 6:31 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-10-05 6:33 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-10-05 6:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-04 5:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2006-10-04 14:57 ` Dan Malek
2006-10-04 16:05 ` Jerry Van Baren
2006-09-27 14:57 ` Sergei Shtylyov
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2006-09-27 13:54 Joakim Tjernlund
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