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Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] [POWERPC] Xilinx: Update booting-without-of.
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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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