Re: [patch 1/5] Staging: VME Framework for the Linux Kernel

Martyn Welch
2009-08-11T12:34:19Z

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 08:44, Martyn Welch wrote:
>
>> For using the VME bus for communication between two SBCs, I think we could
>> use the CRCSR space to provide some information about the resources used on
>> each board for say, a virtual network driver like the rapidIO subsystem
>> provides. Possibly using the "device tree" stuff used on PowerPC, Blackfin
>> and Sparc archs (I believe) for passing device layout between the firmware
>> and kernel at boot.
>>
>
> Blackfin doesnt use device trees and there are no plans to do so
> -mike
>
Sorry, my mistake, I thought it did.

Martyn

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