[PATCH 1/2] [RFC][POWERPC] MPC8568E-MDS: create localbus node
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Oct 16 05:10:19 EST 2007
Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> On Oct 15, 2007, at 1:47 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 07:57:30PM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 07:42:12PM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>>>> Is the entity described as "localbus" indeed so *board* specific?
>>>
>>> That's what booting-without-of.txt gives as an example.
>>
>> The board should have been left out of that. Your compatible should be
>> something like "fsl,mpc8568-localbus", possibly with some canonical
>> mpc85xx
>> chip as well, chosen to represent 85xx localbus in general.
>
> Lets be careful, there are at least two forms of localbus on 85xx.
Do you mean LAWBAR v. BRn/ORn (the manuals refer to the latter as
"localbus", so I'd be inclined to stick with that name, and call the
former mpc8568-lawbar or something), or some 85xx being different than
others?
-Scott
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