[PATCH 1/3] fsl_soc.c cleanup

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Sep 11 23:57:17 EST 2007


On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:35:56AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> 
> On Aug 28, 2007, at 3:16 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> 
> >1. Fix get_immrbase() to use ranges, rather than reg.
> >
> >It is not always the case that the SoC's first reg property points
> >to the beginning of the entire SoC block.
> 
> when is this true?

The intent was to eliminate the need for the reg property in /soc.

> Upon further testing this breaks some platforms.  I don't think  
> assuming the first range entry is mapping to the SOC register space  
> is a good idea.

Let me guess, 8544ds and 8548cds?  Because of the same recent ranges
changes that we were arguing about in another thread? :-P

-Scott



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