[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:
<snip>
> > > 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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