From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: John Rigby <jrigby@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5121 pci 1/3] powerpc: 83xx: pci: Remove need for get_immrbase from mpc83xx_add_bridge.
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:10:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48A30772.4030508@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48A3068F.20409@freescale.com>
John Rigby wrote:
> As I type this I'm coming to like the primary flag more and more.
> I'm willing to change it to 'fsl,primary-pci-bridge' though I don't
> really agree with your argument against the generic name. It is in
> the context of an 'fsl,pci-whatever' node so it does not have to be
> specific.
It *does* have to be specific; what if "primary" comes to mean something
else in a broader context?
> And maybe generic is good, a universal generic solution would be to
> require all primary pci nodes to have the property then
> pci_process_bridge_OF_ranges could get it out of the device node
> instead of having it passed in.
The "universal generic solution" would be to encode legacy I/O devices
in the device tree, and fix Linux to not assume that they're all on one bus.
If we must have a property, how about something like "pci-legacy-io"?
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-13 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-07 17:36 [PATCH 5121 pci 1/3] powerpc: 83xx: pci: Remove need for get_immrbase from mpc83xx_add_bridge John Rigby
2008-08-07 17:36 ` [PATCH 5121 pci 2/3] powerpc: 5121: Add PCI support John Rigby
2008-08-07 17:36 ` [PATCH 5121 pci 3/3] powerpc: pci: 5121: Hide pci bridge John Rigby
2008-08-13 5:16 ` Grant Likely
2008-08-14 3:19 ` Kumar Gala
2008-08-13 5:12 ` [PATCH 5121 pci 2/3] powerpc: 5121: Add PCI support Grant Likely
2008-08-13 5:09 ` [PATCH 5121 pci 1/3] powerpc: 83xx: pci: Remove need for get_immrbase from mpc83xx_add_bridge Grant Likely
2008-08-13 16:06 ` John Rigby
2008-08-13 16:10 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-08-13 16:20 ` Grant Likely
2008-08-13 16:23 ` Grant Likely
2008-08-13 16:30 ` John Rigby
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