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Subject: Re: mpc8541 pci1 ioport allocation address space problem
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 22:24 +0800, Wang Jian wrote:
> 
> I had this patch and 2 fixes on dts applied simultaneously, and the
> board
> works. I thought this patch was necessary.
> 
> I reverted this patch and tried again, the board still works. Thanks
> for
> your insight.
> 
> Anyway, the io port read from /proc/ioports is misleading, so I wish
> it
> can be changed a little.
> 

Ordering things differently in the DTS so that the lower address bus
gets probed first might help.

Cheers
Ben.