[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH v2] Update Freescale sys_eeprom.c to handle CCID formats

[Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>]

Robert Schwebel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 09:59:03AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
>> Update the sys_eeprom.c file to handle both NXID and CCID EEPROM formats.  The
>> NXID format replaces the older CCID format, but it's important to support both
>> since most boards out there still use the CCID format.  This change is in
>> preparation for using one file to handle both formats.  This will also unify
>> EEPROM support for all Freescale 85xx and 86xx boards.
>>
>> Also update the 86xx board header files to use the standard CFG_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR
>> instead of ID_EEPROM_ADDR.
> 
> I don't know what NXID and CCID is, but have you seen Wolfram's proposal
> for sub-devicetrees?
> 
> http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-June/058263.html

This doesn't apply.  CCID and NXID are Freescale-custom layouts for data in an 
EEPROM.  NXID replaces CCID.  I suppose we could replace NXID with something 
FDT-based, like Wolfram's proposal, but for now my goal is clean up the code 
that supports the existing formats.

> Our aim here is to put device tree sniplets into eeproms or flash areas;
> we have several boards here that consist of
> 
> - a module
> - a base board
> - maybe an extension board
> 
> and having sub devicetrees would make it possible to simply put the
> devicetree for each component into a piece of storage *on the
> component*. So the bootloader and later Linux would be able to build the
> whole tree from these sniplets.

Sounds complicated and interesting.  I might think about it some more later.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale