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

Yuri Tikhonov yur at emcraft.com
Fri Nov 14 16:27:25 EST 2008


Hello Grant,

On Friday, November 14, 2008 you wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 06:45:33AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:49:14 +0300
>> Yuri Tikhonov <yur at emcraft.com> wrote:
>> > +           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";

> Actually, if there is a sysace, it is definitely a xilinx part.  It
> won't be on the SoC.  However, compatible = "xlnx,opb-sysace-1.00.b"
> isn't really accurate.  It should really be compatible = "xlnx,sysace"
> and the driver modified to accept this string.

 OK, we'll do this, and then re-post together with the cleaned-up 
"[PATCH] xsysace: use resource_size_t instead of unsigned long" patch.


>   "xlnx,opb-sysace-1.00.b"
> is an FPGA block used to interface to the system ace which is
> definitely not in use here.

> So while it does get things to work, it is not a clean description of
> the hardware.

> g.




 Regards, Yuri

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