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

Zhang Wei-r63237 Wei.Zhang at freescale.com
Tue Sep 11 20:01:39 EST 2007


 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 04:43:35PM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > > +   l) Freescale DMA
> > 
> > > +    - compatible : Should be "fsl,dma".
> > 
> > Please choose some more specific name.  "fsl,mpc8540-dma" would
> > be a reasonable choice perhaps.
> 
> More precisely, the compatible property should always have an specific
> entry based on the exact chip the DMA engine resides in, as well as a
> more general entry for any fsl dma engine of this type.
> 
There is only difference in DMA channel and not in DMA node now. Does it
need add the precise compatible property name?

Thanks!
- zw



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