[PATCH 10/11] Add MPC8360EMDS board support

Ben Warren bwarren at qstreams.com
Wed Sep 27 23:09:16 EST 2006


On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 16:55 +0400, Vitaly Bordug wrote:

> 
> I though about that approach, but saw somewhere a reference that we should not summon new node types without utter necessity, and utilized memory because bcsr is memory-mapped stuff. I can hardly imagine bcsr as a device (which would require respective spec inclusion btw).
> 
> hence let's open a discussion what others think about that. The problem seems common (and for some boards 
> is called somewhat else apparently), but at this point we should come to some conclusion, document it, and use it.
> 
Since "memory" is not quite specific enough, but "board-control" is a
little bit Freescale and application-centric, how about
"memmapped-device", or something like that.  This could encompass FPGAs,
ASICs, CPLDs or anything else that is memory mapped.  Many custom
embedded boards have lots of such devices and could benefit from this
approach.

regards,
Ben




More information about the Linuxppc-dev mailing list