From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com (qb-out-0506.google.com [72.14.204.237]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACDAADDF2C for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:16:25 +1100 (EST) Received: by qb-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id e11so2012778qbe.15 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:16:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:14:42 -0500 From: Josh Boyer To: Segher Boessenkool Subject: Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] Add AMCC Glacier 460GT eval board dts Message-ID: <20080321201442.71f657be@zod.rchland.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <9638a186ce2754343d4d349e55c15e2a@kernel.crashing.org> References: <1205943310-26323-1-git-send-email-sr@denx.de> <1206090031.8420.67.camel@pasglop> <200803211154.34027.sr@denx.de> <20080321072419.2372774b@hansolo.jdub.homelinux.org> <9638a186ce2754343d4d349e55c15e2a@kernel.crashing.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Stefan Roese List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:28:38 +0100 Segher Boessenkool wrote: > >>> As for the DTS, maybe a "compatible" property in the CPU might make > >>> some > >>> sense with a content along the lines of "ppc440x6" or whatever rev of > >>> the 440 core it is. > >>> > >>> What do you think ? > >> > >> Good idea. I'll try to come up with a list for all existing 4xx SoC's > >> and it's > >> core versions. > > > > I don't really care either way, but what does that buy us? Merely > > documentation? > > Obviously, as long as the kernel doesn't use the device tree for probing > the CPUs available, additions to the device tree here don't affect the > kernel at all ;-P Yes, of course. I meant were there other plans for it. Ben and I had a brief discussion of some of the possible uses and it seems pretty sane. josh