From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] of/address: restrict 'no-ranges' kludge to powerpc
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:33:54 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1276648434.2552.165.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1C7A9067-DDE6-47D3-AC78-FDC081354519@kernel.crashing.org>
On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 18:23 +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >> Certain Apple machines don't use the ranges property correctly,
> >> but the
> >> workaround should not be applied on other architectures. This patch
> >> disables the workaround for non-powerpc architectures.
> >
> > I'm half tempted to add it to the quirk list (which should really be
> > made generic) so I can disable it on more 'modern' powerpc as well.
>
> Oh please oh please oh please yes do.
>
> OTOH, it would be even better to just fix up the device tree in the
> early platform code. Quirks are for broken hardware; software, we
> can fix.
That would work if I could bloody remember which machines need what on
what nodes ... some of those are ancient and I don't have access to all
of them.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-16 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20100608140917.25879.67745.stgit@angua>
2010-06-08 14:09 ` [PATCH 1/5] of/address: merge of_iomap() Grant Likely
2010-06-10 6:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-06-08 14:10 ` [PATCH 2/5] of/address: merge of_address_to_resource() Grant Likely
2010-06-10 6:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-06-08 14:10 ` [PATCH 3/5] of/address: Merge all of the bus translation code Grant Likely
2010-06-10 6:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-06-10 14:26 ` Grant Likely
2010-06-21 21:06 ` Grant Likely
2010-06-21 23:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-06-08 14:10 ` [PATCH 4/5] of/address: little-endian fixes Grant Likely
2010-06-10 6:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-06-08 14:10 ` [PATCH 5/5] of/address: restrict 'no-ranges' kludge to powerpc Grant Likely
2010-06-10 6:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-06-10 14:28 ` Grant Likely
2010-06-11 1:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-06-15 16:23 ` Segher Boessenkool
2010-06-16 0:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2010-06-08 14:12 ` [PATCH 0/5] Merge common address translation code (ppc & mb) Grant Likely
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