add phy-handle property for fec_mpc52xx

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Jan 10 16:04:44 EST 2008


On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 13:21 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> David Woodhouse writes:
> 
> > It would be much better if the kernel would 'just work'. The ideal way
> > of achieving that is for the firmware to be fixed -- but that's been
> > promised for a long time now, and we just don't believe you any more. So
> > working round it in the kernel seems to be the next best option.
> 
> Does the efika use a boot wrapper?  If so then putting the fixup in
> the boot wrapper might be better.

It's standard OF boot process, the fixup belongs in prom_init. Grant has
a better version of the patch that puts the fixup along with other efika
related ones that are already there.

Cheers,
Ben.





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