[U-Boot-Users] MPC83xx - previous patch to set MBAR
Kumar Gala
galak at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Aug 3 02:12:03 EST 2007
On Aug 2, 2007, at 10:28 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 10:14:31AM +0800, Liu Dave-r63238 wrote:
>>> MBAR doesn't live up to its name. It's a general-purpose scratch
>>> register - the hardware doesn't do anything with it. So, wrt
>
> That doesn't mean there isn't value in setting it, so code can easily
> find the IMMR without having to parse the device tree.
It could be, but there isn't really any value in doing this since its
in the device-tree and we have to find it for 85xx, 86xx, and pretty
much all our parts.
- k
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