Document and implement an improved flash device binding for powerpc (v4)

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Aug 31 04:23:12 EST 2007


On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:04:50 -0500
Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:59:52PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:29:33 -0500
> > Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 11:21:18AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > > > +    For JEDEC compatible devices, the following additional properties
> > > > +    are defined:
> > > > +
> > > > +     - vendor-id : Contains the flash chip's vendor id (1 byte).
> > > > +     - device-id : Contains the flash chip's device id (1 byte).
> > > 
> > > Are these required, or recommended?
> > 
> > For JEDEC, I believe those are required.
> 
> It can be probed, though...

Yes, ignore me.  And looking at the updated ebony.dts in David's patch,
it would seem they are optional.  Apparently I didn't drink enough
coffee this morning.

josh



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