Audio codec device tree entries

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Tue Oct 23 12:57:13 EST 2007


On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 09:59:00PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Is this what the device tree entries should look like?
> 
> First example is ac97 audio:
> 
> ac97 at 2000 {           // PSC1
>       device_type = "sound";

Kill all these device_type values.

>       compatible = "mpc5200b-psc-ac97\0mpc5200-psc-ac97";

dtc now supports the more readable:
	compatible = "mpc5200b-psc-ac97", "mpc5200-psc-ac97";
Use it.

>       cell-index = <0>;

cell-index should only be present if the device is within a
system-on-chip *and* that device number is used to program some global
register somewhere.

>       reg = <2000 100>;
>       interrupts = <2 1 0>;
>       interrupt-parent = <&mpc5200_pic>;
>       codec-handle = <&codec0>
> };
> 
> pseudo-sound at 0 { // use to trigger loading platform specific fabric driver
>       device_type = "pseudo-sound"
> };

This looks completely bogus.  The device tree should represent actual
hardware.

> codec0:codec at 0 {

Space after the : please.

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