Re: [PATCH 2/6] ARM: DTS: da850: Add node for edma0

[Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>]

On Friday 01 August 2014 10:39 AM, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> On 07/31/2014 05:26 PM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>> On 07/31/2014 02:18 PM, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
>>
>>> Add DT node for edma0.
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com>
>>> ---
>>>   arch/arm/boot/dts/da850.dtsi | 6 ++++++
>>>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/da850.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/da850.dtsi
>>> index b695548dbb4e..41ce4e8bf227 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/da850.dtsi
>>> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/da850.dtsi
>>> @@ -150,6 +150,12 @@
>>>               };
>>>
>>>           };
>>> +        edma0: edma@01c00000 {
>>> +            compatible = "ti,edma3";
>>> +            reg =    <0x0 0x10000>;
>>
>>    Why the mismatch between the unit-address part of the node name and the
>> "reg" property?
> 
> For some reason the whole da850 uses offset from 0x01c00000 for the SoC IPs.
> The nodes are under 'soc' and that has the ranges attribute.
> I do not really like this either.

There is no reason I can remember for why we chose to go the offset +
ranges way. Probably based it on an early OMAP example. Right now lets
keep it that way unless there is a big disadvantage.

Thanks,
Sekhar