[PATCH v3] powerpc/85xx: Add P2020DS board support

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Apr 23 03:25:33 EST 2009


On Apr 22, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Scott Wood wrote:

> Kumar Gala wrote:
>> On Apr 22, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
>>> Kumar Gala wrote:
>>>>> If this has an elbc more recent than 1.0 (looks like it), we  
>>>>> should
>>>>> indicate that here.
>>>> that might be the case, but I leave it to u-boot to do that.
>>>
>>> Why?  There's no p2020 with an older eLBC, and there's no block  
>>> version register.
>> But there might be a p2020 w/a newer eLBC version in the future.
>
> At which point we can add something to u-boot -- but magic SVR  
> tables seem a step backward from the dts except where needed to  
> avoid the creation of extra dts files.

I don't see the value of complicating u-boot to have to parse and  
"fixup" the compatible instead of just having to prepend to it.   
Especially since I don't believe there is anything specific we care  
about in the 1.2 version of elbc at this point.

- k



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