[PATCH v2] powerpc: Add dma nodes to 83xx, 85xx and 86xx boards
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Jul 1 01:35:13 EST 2008
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 02:15:25PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 04:10:17PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > Added DMA nodes for the elo/elo-plus DMA engines.
> >
> > Renamed the interrupt controller alias in mpc832x_rdb.dts to ipic so that
> > its the same as all the other boards.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
>
> [snip]
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/asp834x-redboot.dts b/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/asp834x-redboot.dts
> > index 972cf78..8b1bb0e 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/asp834x-redboot.dts
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/asp834x-redboot.dts
> > @@ -118,6 +118,41 @@
> > mode = "cpu";
> > };
> >
> > + dma at 82a8 {
> > + #address-cells = <1>;
> > + #size-cells = <1>;
> > + compatible = "fsl,mpc8347-dma", "fsl,elo-dma";
> > + reg = <0x82a8 4>;
> > + ranges = <0 0x8100 0x1a8>;
> > + interrupt-parent = <&ipic>;
> > + interrupts = <71 8>;
> > + cell-index = <0>;
>
> What's the cell-index in these nodes used to index? Given the
> confusion there's been about the proper use of this property, a
> comment indicating which shared registers this is used to index is
> probably a good idea.
There's supposed to be a cell-index in the *channels* to index into the
shared summary register (the "reg" of the dma node itself). I don't see any
purpose for a cell-index in the main dma node, though.
-Scott
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