[PATCH 18/19] bootwrapper: Add xlate_reg(), and use it to find serial registers.

Mark A. Greer mgreer at mvista.com
Sat Feb 10 10:07:00 EST 2007


On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:01:45PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> xlate_reg() uses the ranges properties of a node's parentage to find the
> absolute physical address of the node's registers.
> 
> The ns16550 driver uses this when no virtual-reg property is found.

Is this necessary?  Shouldn't there always be a virtual-reg?

Mark



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