[PATCH] PowerPC: usb ehci of_platform bindings for Sequoia 440EPx

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Sep 15 01:35:05 EST 2007


On Sep 14, 2007, at 9:31 AM, Valentine Barshak wrote:

> Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>>> EHCI OF bindings for PowerPC 440EPx Sequoia.
>>
>> Those aren't bindings, they are examples.  Bindings are pieces
>> of documentation that describe what device-specific properties
>> mean what, what standard properties are required with what
>> values, etc.
>>
>> Examples are good to have, of course.
>>
>> One thing you really need to document is what "ehci-be-desc"
>> and friends mean.  I can give you one comment already: for
>> devices that are usually little-endian, but an implementation
>> implements registers as big-endian, precedent is to show that
>> in the device tree by including an (empty) "big-endian" property,
>> rather than inventing new "compatible" values.
>
> I was looking at the ohci-ppc-of driver that has "ohci-bigendian"
> compatible string and enables both be-mmio and be-desc for the  
> device in
> this case. I just wanted to separate mmio and desc stuff for ehci,  
> since
> some devices need be-mmio only.
> I'll use "big-endian" property instead of "ehci-be-mmio" compatible
> value. That's a good point, thanks.
> Do I have to add "sequoia usb ehci" description to
> Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt?
> Do I also have to describe ehci-ppc-of stuff in general?
> BTW, I see nothing about ohci-ppc-of there.

We may need to comprehend the Freescale USB controller since its  
technically an EHCI controller.  There should be some stuff in  
booting-without-of.txt related to it.

- k



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