[PATCH 2/16] add hypervisor support for SPU
Ishizaki Kou
kou.ishizaki at toshiba.co.jp
Wed Nov 22 00:42:49 EST 2006
Arnd-san,
> On Friday 17 November 2006 11:33, Ishizaki Kou wrote:
> > We don't think that standard binding for SPE exists. Do you have any
> > proposal? If you have, please send us your binding.
> >
> > On our device tree, property "reg" has unit number. Addresses are in
> > property "priv2", "problem" and "local-store". Because of LPAR
> > environment, property "priv1" does not exist.
>
> Unfortunately, we don't have any official binding documents for this,
> but you can look at how both methods are used in the source code now.
>
> There should not be any priv2, problem or local-store properties
> any more. We have chosen the order of these register areas in the
> "reg" property to be "local-store", "problem", "priv2", "priv1",
> where the last one is optional so you don't need to provide one
> in a hypervisor.
>
> Similarly, there should no longer be a single "isrc" property,
> but rather a standard "interrupts" property with three values
> that can be mapped to an interrupt number each, for class
> 0, 1 and 2 interrupts.
Please tell us a little more.
Where is unit number on your device-tree?
What encoding is used for it?
How many cells does it use?
Thank you,
Kou Ishizaki
Toshiba
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