[PATCH] [POWERPC] Add AMCC Glacier 460GT eval board dts

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Fri Mar 21 23:24:19 EST 2008


On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:54:33 +0100
Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de> wrote:

> On Friday 21 March 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 17:15 +0100, Stefan Roese wrote:
> > > +               cpu at 0 {
> > > +                       device_type = "cpu";
> > > +                       model = "PowerPC,460GT";
> > > +                       reg = <0>;
> >
> > I wonder if we should do something here to differenciate the SoC chip
> > from the core. After all, all those 4xx mostly have the same core (there
> > are 2 or 3 revisions of the core maybe ...) but they tend to have all
> > different PVR which is a pain and won't scale...
> >
> > Maybe AMCC could do something in HW (splitting the PVR from whatever
> > indicates what "chip" it is, and keeping the PVR purely for the core
> > rev) but I'm wondering if we should also do something in the DTS..
> > Stefan can you talk to your AMCC contacts about this ?
> 
> Yes, I'll do that. Not sure about the outcome though.
> 
> > As for the DTS, maybe a "compatible" property in the CPU might make some
> > sense with a content along the lines of "ppc440x6" or whatever rev of
> > the 440 core it is.
> >
> > What do you think ?
> 
> Good idea. I'll try to come up with a list for all existing 4xx SoC's and it's 
> core versions.

I don't really care either way, but what does that buy us?  Merely
documentation?

josh



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