From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Stephen Neuendorffer <stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, simekm2@fel.cvut.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] [POWERPC] Xilinx: Update booting-without-of.
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:14:55 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071217041455.GA3477@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071213234151.D0B3DE80061@mail20-sin.bigfish.com>
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 03:43:33PM -0800, Stephen Neuendorffer wrote:
> This now better describes what the UBoot device tree generator actually does. In particular:
>
> 1) Nodes have a label derived from the device name, and a node name
> derived from the device type.
> 2) Usage of compound nodes (representing more than one device in the same IP) which actually works. This requires having a valid compatible node, and all the other things that a bus normally has. I've chosen 'xlnx,compound' as the bus name to describe these compound nodes.
I'm not sure I like this xlnx,compound business, although maybe it's
the best you can do.
> 3) Uartlite requires a port-number property for the console to work.
Why? In general we try to avoid magical sequence numbers - cell-index
should *only* be used when it's needed to index or program some shared
register.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-17 4:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1197589413-5965-1-git-send-email-stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
2007-12-13 23:43 ` [PATCH 2/7] [POWERPC] Xilinx: clear data caches Stephen Neuendorffer
2007-12-14 0:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-12-14 0:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-12-14 0:36 ` Stephen Neuendorffer
2008-02-01 20:40 ` Grant Likely
[not found] ` <1197589413-5965-2-git-send-email-stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
2007-12-13 23:43 ` [PATCH 3/7] [POWERPC] Xilinx: Uartlite: Make console output actually work Stephen Neuendorffer
[not found] ` <1197589413-5965-3-git-send-email-stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
2007-12-13 23:43 ` [PATCH 4/7] [POWERPC] Xilinx: update compatible list for interrupt controller Stephen Neuendorffer
[not found] ` <1197589413-5965-4-git-send-email-stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
2007-12-13 23:43 ` [PATCH 5/7] [POWERPC] Xilinx: Update compatible to use values generated by BSP generator Stephen Neuendorffer
[not found] ` <1197589413-5965-5-git-send-email-stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
2007-12-13 23:43 ` [PATCH 6/7] [POWERPC] Xilinx: Add correct compatible list for device tree bus bindings Stephen Neuendorffer
[not found] ` <1197589413-5965-6-git-send-email-stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
2007-12-13 23:43 ` [PATCH 7/7] [POWERPC] Xilinx: Update booting-without-of Stephen Neuendorffer
2007-12-17 4:14 ` David Gibson [this message]
2007-12-17 4:30 ` Grant Likely
2007-12-17 4:48 ` Stephen Neuendorffer
2007-12-17 11:57 ` Peter Korsgaard
2007-12-17 15:27 ` Grant Likely
2007-12-17 15:19 ` Grant Likely
2007-12-17 18:24 ` Stephen Neuendorffer
2007-12-17 18:40 ` Grant Likely
2007-12-18 0:22 ` Stephen Neuendorffer
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