From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from az33egw02.freescale.net (az33egw02.freescale.net [192.88.158.103]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86A40679E6 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 00:30:17 +1000 (EST) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <282db6371fad3a0321c673a6b0b524ef@freescale.com> From: Kumar Gala Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:30:09 -0500 To: "Allen Curtis" Cc: linuxppc-embedded Subject: Re: RFC: cpm2_devices.c List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Jun 14, 2005, at 11:41 PM, Allen Curtis wrote: >>>> I've also included our version of this patch for commentary. Did you >>>> see a >>>> need for the following to actually be devices? (DMA, CPM, SI1, > SIC2). >>>> >>> The good thing about them actually being devices is that you can find >>> them and the IO resources had already been remapped. You don't need a >>> device driver for them but they are resources used by other device >>> drivers. >> >> Not sure I follow. The IO resources are not mapped by anything until >> some piece of code does an explicit ioremap(). How do you plan on >> finding them? I've got now issue adding them, I just want to >> understand how you see us using them. A simple code example might be >> helpful. Allen, you haven't addressed my question. - kumar