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From: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: "Scott Wood" <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org,
	John Rigby <jrigby@freescale.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH add immr alias 1/4] powerpc: Teach get_immrbase to use immr alias if it exists.
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 15:08:11 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa686aa40808051408j34dedabg760c68480ead0f24@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4898BCD3.5050703@freescale.com>

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday 05 August 2008, John Rigby wrote:
>>>
>>> This will allow the eventual removal of device_type = "soc"
>>> properties in soc nodes.
>>
>> Stupid question, but why not remove immrbase instead?
>>
>> It seems that all users can be converted to use a reg
>> property of some actual device instead of making assumptions
>> about the register layout of the whole SOC.
>
> That wouldn't eliminate the need for the alias, though -- u-boot needs to
> find the node to fill in properties.

(already made this comment on one of the later patches, but it is more
relevant here...)

I don't think that using aliases is the best solution.  I'd rather see
U-Boot search for the appropriate compatible value for the IMMR node.

g.

>
> -Scott
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-05 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-05 20:13 [PATCH add immr alias 1/4] powerpc: Teach get_immrbase to use immr alias if it exists John Rigby
2008-08-05 20:13 ` [PATCH add immr alias 2/4] powerpc: 5121: Add immr alias to MPC5121 ADS device tree John Rigby
2008-08-05 20:13   ` [PATCH add immr alias 3/4] powerpc: 83xx: Add immr aliases to 83xx device trees John Rigby
2008-08-05 20:13     ` [PATCH add immr alias 4/4] powerpc: 8[56]xx: Add immr aliases to 8[56]xx " John Rigby
2008-08-05 21:05   ` [PATCH add immr alias 2/4] powerpc: 5121: Add immr alias to MPC5121 ADS device tree Grant Likely
2008-08-05 21:05     ` Grant Likely
2008-08-05 21:17       ` John Rigby
2008-08-05 21:20         ` Scott Wood
2008-08-05 21:38           ` John Rigby
2008-08-05 21:08     ` Scott Wood
2008-08-05 21:12       ` Grant Likely
2008-08-05 21:19         ` Scott Wood
2008-08-05 23:46           ` Anton Vorontsov
2008-08-05 20:43 ` [PATCH add immr alias 1/4] powerpc: Teach get_immrbase to use immr alias if it exists Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-05 20:49   ` Scott Wood
2008-08-05 20:50     ` Kumar Gala
2008-08-05 21:08     ` Grant Likely [this message]
2008-08-06  3:41 ` Stephen Rothwell

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