[PATCH 5/5] PCI fixes for the MPC8641 Rev 2.0 silicon and Rev 1.02hardware
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Fri May 18 04:53:40 EST 2007
Timur Tabi wrote:
> One more thing - I think each DTS file should specify which revision of the board it
> supports, and there should be code in U-Boot and/or Linux to check that revision and
> reject the device tree if there's a mismatch. We don't want people accidentally using the
> wrong device tree and wondering why it doesn't work.
We also don't want people using a perfectly good device tree on a newer
revision of the board that just fixes things and doesn't make any
device-tree-relevant changes, and wondering why it doesn't work due to a
failed revision check.
-Scott
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