[PATCH] Fix the LPC47M192 SuperIO on the MPC8641 HPCN
Wade Farnsworth
wfarnsworth at mvista.com
Fri Jun 8 02:51:24 EST 2007
On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 18:35 +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >> Hardcoded I/O port numbers always worry me a little. I know that this
> >> is
> >> supposed to work in general, but can't you read the I/O port range
> >> from
> >> a device tree property?
> >
> > I suppose I could create a device node for the Super I/O config
> > registers and use those instead of hardcoding it here.
>
> I'd just hide it all, do this setup in the firmware,
> where it belongs, and don't expose the superio config
> in the device tree.
That's a valid point. This probably could (should?) be handled by
U-boot.
Jon, or others do you have any opinions on this?
>
> > superio_cfg at 4e {
> > reg = <1 4e 2>;
> > compatible = "smsc-lpc47m192-cfg";
> > };
> >
> > I'm not sure if the name and compatible properties are appropriate
> > though. Any recommendations?
>
> "superio" and "smsc,lpc47m192" I'd say. You also
> then should link the logical devices on the superio
> to the device nodes that represent those. I'm not
> sure this is all worth it, this is low-level setup
> the firmware should do and everything else can treat
> it as a black box.
OK, if we decide to keep this, I'll use those instead.
Thanks.
--Wade
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