[PATCH 5/5] [POWERPC] fsl_soc, legacy_serial: add support for "soc" compatible matching

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Sat Jan 26 05:17:19 EST 2008


Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> Freescale soc register space: "fsl,soc"
> generic soc device: "soc" (or maybe "linux,soc" better?)
> 
> I know, Scott Wood is pushing "xxxx-immr" thing forward... but
> I don't like that name because SOC isn't only device with the
> Internal Memory Mapped Registers. 

If you look in the manual for xxxx, you'll find something called 
"Internal Memory Mapped Registers".  Thus, the name xxxx-immr.

>(Think of QE placed outside of "soc"/"immr" node).

When is the QE ever placed outside the soc/immr/ccsr node?
The QE registers are part of the IMMR/CCSR.

-Scott



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