[PATCH 18/19] bootwrapper: Add xlate_reg(), and use it to find	serial registers.
    Scott Wood 
    scottwood at freescale.com
       
    Tue Feb 13 03:45:07 EST 2007
    
    
  
Mark A. Greer wrote:
> 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?
None of the dts files in the kernel tree currently have such a property...
-Scott
    
    
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