[PATCH 2/6] PowerPC 440EPx: Sequoia DTS

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Aug 7 09:09:22 EST 2007


>>     Actually, checking for the presence of all possible perverted
>> mapping
>> props doesn't seem a good idea -- it's simpler to check for the
>> presence of
>> one prop (like "direct-mapped" I was thinking about, or maybe
>> "simple-map").
>
> Or more simply... if it's not a direct mapping, it doesn't have a 
> ranges
> property and can't be walked down by conventional means.

That establishes that the flash address space is mapped 1-1 into
the host address space; however it doesn't say anything about
swizzling or interleaving or endianness etc., which are important
for NOR flash memory because of how the command sets work.


Segher




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