[PATCH 2/5] Add legacy devices to mpc8641_hpcn.dts

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jul 10 00:43:17 EST 2007


>>>   Yet it's kinda accepted years ago, see:
>
>>> http://playground.sun.com/1275/proposals/Closed/Accepted/381-it.txt
>
>> That's not a published recommendation or anything like that.
>
>    There's also this document with a status of "unapproved draft":
>
> http://playground.sun.com/1275/bindings/devices/html/8042.html
>
>    So, all this never got final approval? Somewhat confusing (well,  
> what one could expect from OF? :-)

I think this 8042 thing became part of the CHRP binding.  There
never was a (published) x86 binding btw.  So for our current
purposes (flat device tree) I recommend we just do the minimal
sane thing, i.e., no device_type and some good "compatible" entry.


Segher




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