From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.lixom.net (lixom.net [66.141.50.11]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6E16DDE0C for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:36:55 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:37:52 -0500 From: Olof Johansson To: Kumar Gala Subject: Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] 85xx: Add basic Uniprocessor MPC8572 DS port Message-ID: <20070912033752.GA21155@lixom.net> References: <230A7A2A-3184-4BC2-B8AC-C94090B532B0@kernel.crashing.org> <20070911155558.GA10743@lixom.net> <11B85E70-D643-4013-A9B3-59CD76F9D7AB@kernel.crashing.org> <20070911171521.GB10743@lixom.net> <46E6CE9A.8080402@freescale.com> <20070911173308.GA11951@lixom.net> <46E6D4D4.2050600@freescale.com> <20070912030005.GA20218@localhost.localdomain> <0F762D4F-C84B-4979-92D4-42C5D40AE455@kernel.crashing.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <0F762D4F-C84B-4979-92D4-42C5D40AE455@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, David Gibson List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 10:35:01PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > > In the meantime, couldn't the code still be merged, using an explicit > > test of the root node's 'compatible' or 'model' properties to decide > > on the right primary bus. > > I will be, I'm not going to wait on having some device tree spec for > this. The board code can handle it until we come to some agreement > on how to do this. I'm in agreement with Scott in that code should > be added to scan or allow explicit determination. Adding a 'prop' to > the device tree just for linux seems a bit silly. Sounds good to me as well. -Olof