[PATCH 5/5] PCI fixes for the MPC8641 Rev 2.0 silicon and Rev 1.02hardware

[Matt Sealey]

Timur Tabi wrote:
> Scott Wood wrote:
> 
>> 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,
> 
> Well, either one device tree is okay, or we need two.  If we do need two, then it would be 
> bad to load the wrong one on a particular board and have only 90% functionality.  If he 
> have the ability to prevent customers from getting confused, then we should do that.  I 
> wish this was standard behavior for all device trees.  I've frequently loaded the wrong 
> device tree and wondered why nothing worked.

Another design win for dynamically generated firmware device trees and
a knock on the head for writing text files and hoping they match the
hardware description? :D

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Matt Sealey <matt at genesi-usa.com>
Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations