[PATCH v2 2/3] mpc82xx: Embedded Planet EP8248E support

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Dec 18 02:18:13 EST 2007


David Gibson wrote:
> As I think I said about another tree, this mdio-under-bcsr arrangement
> is pretty strange.  What's going on here.

As I answered then, it's just the way the hardware is.  I didn't design 
it. :-P

>> +	soc at f0000000 {
>> +		#address-cells = <1>;
>> +		#size-cells = <1>;
>> +		device_type = "soc";
> 
> Ditch the device_type.

No, it's used by the bootwrapper.  I'll get rid of it if you want to 
write a find_node_by_compatible() function. :-)

-Scott



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