Small fixes for the Ebony device tree
Segher Boessenkool
segher at kernel.crashing.org
Tue May 15 17:02:48 EST 2007
> Why "ibm,xxx"? Is this for the CPU core? Or for the SDRAM controller
> core?
For whatever is behind the comma. The prefixes are
meant to give each manufacturer his own namespace,
to reduce the number of name collisions.
> Both are not IBM in this case.
Yeah.
> I forgot the new 405EX which will be equipped with a DDR2 controller
> (not sure
> right now if it's the Denali or the other core right now). So we should
> probably drop this 40x/44x completely. Does this make sense?
Yes. To claim compatibility to a family of devices,
specify the oldest part, or the most popular part,
or a few parts if different generations added more
features (and this part is compatible with those).
Segher
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