From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from archon.plz.fr (archon.plz.fr [194.50.78.210]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB8EEDDE10 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 17:56:45 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:56:42 +0200 From: Sven Luther To: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: Question on mpc52xx_common.c Message-ID: <20080408075642.GA24770@powerlinux.fr> References: <47FAA0A8.7050602@genesi-usa.com> <200804080414.42867.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In-Reply-To: <200804080414.42867.arnd@arndb.de> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Detlev Zundel , sven@genesi-usa.com List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 04:14:42AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Matt Sealey wrote: > > Grant Likely wrote: > > > > > > Sure, why not?  If the firmware has already set it up correctly and no > > > devices using it are in use, then the kernel should be okay.  :-) > > > That said, I can't imagine choosing to not put the cdm node into the > > > device tree. > > > > *ahem* Efika. > > Maybe we should just give up on making the efika boot with its regular > device tree and instead add a boot wrapper that either fixes up the > data provided by its firmware or just adds a proper dt blob? for 2.6.24, device-tree fixups where added to the linux kernel, since we don't have a possibility to modify the efika dt, or at least not in a foreseable future, we should just add more fixups so we can handle various other problems in it. Friendly, Sven Luther