[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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