[RFC 3/3] powerpc: Add DTS file for the Motorola PrPMC2800 platform

Dale Farnsworth dale at farnsworth.org
Fri Mar 30 08:21:52 EST 2007


On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 02:48:47AM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> The only valid reason to use "virtual-reg" is as a
> hack to map some device to get some debug output out.
> 
> If for normal usage you can't be bothered to parse
> the current translations, you probably shouldn't be
> doing anything as "advanced" as device I/O either --
> just boot the kernel and let it handle it ;-)
> 
> That said, I sure hope the kernel isn't using this
> property as well...

I think we all agree that would be bogus.

-Dale



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