[PATCH] katmai.dts: extend DMA ranges; add dma/sysace nodes

Yuri Tikhonov yur at emcraft.com
Fri Nov 14 16:21:15 EST 2008


 Hello Josh,

On Thursday, November 13, 2008 you wrote:

[snip]

> You have no compatible property in these 3 nodes.  How are drivers
> supposed to bind to them?

> You also have no reg or dcr-reg properties.  What exactly are these
> nodes for?

 Probably we (me and Ilya) overdone with posting katmai.dts-related 
changes to ML, and duplicated the same patches in different posts. 
Sorry for the confusion. These nodes are necessary for the ppc440spe 
ADMA driver:

http://www.nabble.com/-PATCH-11-11--ppc440spe-adma:-ADMA-driver-for-PPC440SP(e)-td20488049.html

>> +             sysacecf at 4fe000000 {
>> +                     compatible = "xlnx,opb-sysace-1.00.b";

> Odd.  This isn't a xilinx board by any means.  This should probably
> look something like:

>         compatible = "amcc,sysace-440spe", "xlnx,opb-sysace-1.00.b";

> Though I'm curious about it in general.  The xilinx bindings have the
> versioning numbers on them to match particular bit-streams in the FPGAs
> if I remember correctly.  Does that really apply here?

 No, we just selected the description which looked more appropriate 
for our case: SysAce is connected to the External Bus Controller of 
440SPe, which in turns is attached as a slave to OPB (on-chip 
peripheral).

 Regards, Yuri

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 Yuri Tikhonov, Senior Software Engineer
 Emcraft Systems, www.emcraft.com




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