From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: ben@simtec.co.uk, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: OF compatible MTD platform RAM driver ?
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:12:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7651faf227608c9f9ca8f2737416f9a@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47EA6E88.5050109@ru.mvista.com>
>> "memory-mapped-memory" perhaps :-)
>
>> Or, just "memory". Although that one might play havoc with some
>
> I'd suggest "ram" and "rom" then. Luckily the device trees don't
> contain binding for the real RAM chips yet. :-)
>
>> not-quite-correct main memory probing code.
>
> You mean the there's parsers that search the "compatible" prop for
> "memory" as well as "device_type" prop?
There are parsers that make all kinds of mistakes, sure.
The code that figures out what region of ram to use should look at the
node pointed to by /chosen/memory, it's shouldn't look for anything
with a certain "compatible", and it shouldn't look at "device_type"
_at all_.
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-30 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-10 15:06 OF compatible MTD platform RAM driver ? Laurent Pinchart
2008-03-10 17:00 ` Rune Torgersen
2008-03-11 0:45 ` David Gibson
2008-03-11 10:39 ` Laurent Pinchart
2008-03-11 22:40 ` David Gibson
2008-03-25 14:36 ` Laurent Pinchart
2008-03-25 15:29 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-03-25 15:51 ` Laurent Pinchart
2008-03-25 16:23 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-03-25 16:44 ` Laurent Pinchart
2008-03-25 17:02 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-03-25 17:23 ` Laurent Pinchart
2008-03-25 17:37 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-03-25 17:56 ` Rune Torgersen
2008-03-25 18:14 ` Laurent Pinchart
2008-03-26 12:53 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-03-27 9:13 ` Laurent Pinchart
2008-03-27 10:03 ` David Gibson
2008-03-27 12:23 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-03-28 0:07 ` David Gibson
2008-03-28 12:31 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-03-27 14:31 ` Laurent Pinchart
2008-03-28 0:09 ` David Gibson
2008-03-30 18:15 ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-03-30 21:16 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-03-30 22:39 ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-03-31 0:42 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-03-31 0:59 ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-03-31 1:24 ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-03-31 8:21 ` Laurent Pinchart
2008-03-31 12:21 ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-03-26 15:06 ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-03-26 15:40 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-03-27 9:24 ` Laurent Pinchart
2008-03-30 18:12 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2008-03-26 15:09 ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-03-11 15:00 ` Rune Torgersen
2008-03-11 22:41 ` David Gibson
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