[PATCH 2/3] arm/dt: add very basic dts file for babbage board

Jason Hui jason.hui at linaro.org
Mon Mar 7 16:06:44 EST 2011


Hi, Grant and Shawn,

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:32:01PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
>> Hi Grant,
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:10:24AM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
>> > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 2:46 AM, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at linaro.org> wrote:
>> [...]
>> > >> +       clocks {
>>
>> Do we already have a clock binding specification, which is followed
>> by this example?  Or the properties given here still can be discussed
>> and open to change?
>>
>> Also to support dynamically creating and registering 'struct clk' per
>> dt clock nodes, I need to add a few properties to map stuff like
>> parent 'struct clk', con_id of 'struct clk_lookup'.  Is there any
>> specification to follow, or I can draft it per the needs of my work?
>
> The clock specifications are still in draft.  I'm not willing to lock
> down on a binding until we've got some real implementations to back
> them up.  If you need additional properties, go ahead an propose them.
>
> Keep in mind when defining/extending bindings, that the dt is intended
> to represent hardware layout, not Linux kernel internal implementation
> details.  Try to avoid describing things in a linux-specific way.

I will consider all your review comments and come up with V2 patch soon.

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