[PATCH 1/4] [POWERPC] 85xx: add board support for the TQM8548 modules
Kumar Gala
galak at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Jun 5 17:43:59 EST 2008
>>>>
>>> I'm puzzled. Could someone point me to some real code where cell-
>>> index
>>> is used as a pointer into some global data. Sorry for my ignorance.
>>
>> http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-June/057254.html
>
> Yep, I saw that it's used for I2C (and SPI). But "cell-index" is also
> defined for network, serial and PCI nodes, which are also assigned via
> aliases.
Some of this is for the future. There are other SoC registers (like
on 85xx in GUTS) that need index information.
- k
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