[PATCH 1/5] Add Freescale DMA and DMA channel to Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt file.

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Sep 8 00:43:35 EST 2007


> +   l) Freescale DMA

> +    - compatible : Should be "fsl,dma".

Please choose some more specific name.  "fsl,mpc8540-dma" would
be a reasonable choice perhaps.

> +    - reg : Offset and length of DMA general status register.
> +    - ranges : Should be defined as specified in 1) to describe the
> +               DMA controller channels.
> +
> +  Example:
> +	dma at 21000 {
> +		reg = <21300 4>;

Those don't agree.  It's probably best to describe the whole
DMA controller register block in this node.  Why do you need
subnodes for the channels at all?


Segher




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