[RFC 3/3] powerpc: Add DTS file for the Motorola PrPMC2800 platform

Mark A. Greer mgreer at mvista.com
Wed Apr 4 04:50:00 EST 2007


On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:55:02AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 11:15:53AM -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:35:50AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:43:16AM -0700, Yoder Stuart-B08248 wrote:

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> > > The only thing that should need
> > > virtual-reg properties is serial ports.  In fact, specifically, only
> > > serial ports that the zImage is actually expected to use.
> > 
> > Not true.  Any reg block you're going to access in the bootwrapper needs
> > this or some equivalent method for determining where to access those regs.
> > Either that, parse BAT & page/hash tables, or provide ioremap in the
> > bootwrapper (which, at the time virtual-reg materialized, was deemed
> > overkill for the bootwrapper--presumably the same goes for parsing hash
> > tables).
> 
> And examples of such reg blocks other than serial would be...?

I2C.  Reading the MAC addr and putting into dev tree for kernel.

Mark



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