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Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 06:16:49 -0500
From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] Xilinx: add compatibility for IBM coreconnect
	busses.
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On Thu, 8 May 2008 13:30:06 +1000
David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 09:46:30PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> ePAPR states that busses which cannot be probed as such (i.e. the
> device tree is the only way to figure out what's on the bus) should
> have "simple-bus" in their compatible property.  You can then just add
> simple-bus to the of_bus_ids list and avoid adding umpteen other things.

Hm.  Hopefully ePAPR will be released soon.

josh