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

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Feb 14 03:00:45 EST 2007


On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 03:10:15PM -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 10:45 -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> > Mark A. Greer wrote:
> > > 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...
> 
> 4xx will use this.  The bootwrapper will use the UART mapping setup by
> the firmware to print out to the console.  At least that is why it was
> added to being with, and how I had it working on Ebony a while ago.
> David may have changed it since.

Note that my patch will still use virtual-reg if it is there; the ranges
parsing is a fall back for the targets that don't need virtual-reg.

-Scott



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