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Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 21:46:30 -0500
From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] Xilinx: add compatibility for IBM coreconnect
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On Thu, 8 May 2008 10:18:50 +1000
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:

> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 01:47:31PM -0700, Stephen Neuendorffer wrote:
> > The IBM coreconnect names are pretty well defined, it appears.  In
> > addition, the Xilinx versions of these IPs seem to be proliferating.
> > Hence, in the future let's prefer to use the standard names.  I've
> > left the old names in for some backward compatibility for existing
> > device trees.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Neuendorffer <stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
> 
> If you're talking about future trees, can't you just slap "simple-bus"
> on them avoid this monster id table?

What is that and how does it work?

josh