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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: Small fixes for the Ebony device tree
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 09:07:52 +0200
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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> Sod it, I think I'll just drop everything except "ibm,sdram-440gp" for
> now.

Perfect plan :-)  And then 440GX, GR, etc. can claim
compatibility to 440GP, which is the nestor of the
family.

> If some later driver has to have an extra backwards
> compatibility id_table entry for the Ebony/440GP it's no great
> disaster.

Sure, mistakes happen.  They can be fixed in the
bootwrapper, too -- or just in the DTS file if your
device tree is shipped with the kernel.


Segher