Re: [PATCH] Add aliases node to 8641hpcn DTS file.

[Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:05:07 -0600
Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 11:38, Grant Likely wrote:
> 
> > >
> > > +       aliases {
> > > +               ethernet0 = &enet0;
> > > +               ethernet1 = &enet1;
> > > +               ethernet2 = &enet2;
> > > +               ethernet3 = &enet3;
> > > +               serial0 = &serial0;
> > > +               serial1 = &serial1;
> > > +               pci0 = &pci0;
> > > +               pci1 = &pci1;
> > > +       };
> > 
> > I had thought aliases were supposed to be full paths to nodes instead
> > of phandles.  Was I wrong?
> 
> Indeed, that is correct.  And they are!
> 
> => fdt addr c00000
> => fdt print /aliases
> aliases {
>         ethernet0 = "/soc8641@f8000000/ethernet@24000";
>         ethernet1 = "/soc8641@f8000000/ethernet@25000";
>         ethernet2 = "/soc8641@f8000000/ethernet@26000";
>         ethernet3 = "/soc8641@f8000000/ethernet@27000";
>         serial0 = "/soc8641@f8000000/serial@4500";
>         serial1 = "/soc8641@f8000000/serial@4600";
>         pci0 = "/pcie@f8008000";
>         pci1 = "/pcie@f8009000";
> };
> => bootm 1000000 - c00000
> 
> Grant, you need to keep up, man.  Just this morning
> I pushed Gibson's patch to DTC to support this. :-)

So now the in-kernel version of DTC needs to support this.

josh