[MPC8272ADS]Problem adding flash partitions inside the device tree

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Fri Feb 13 00:30:37 EST 2009


On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:10:58PM +0100, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote:
> 2009/2/12 Pieter <phenning at vastech.co.za>
> 
> > Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote:
> > > Warning (reg_format): "reg" property in
> > > /localbus at f0010100/flash at 0,0/partition at ff800000 has invalid length (8
> > > JM
> > You are missing some definitions, The #address-cells and #size-cells = <1>;
> > tis is a snippet of teh dts i defined for my board.
> >
> >        flash at 0,0 {
> >            #address-cells = <1>;
> >            #size-cells = <1>;
> >            compatible = "cfi-flash";
> >            reg = <0x0 0x0 0x08000000>;
> >             bank-width = <4>;
> >            device-width = <1>;
> >
> >             /* set flash partition to correspond tu mtd parts in
> > u-boot*/
> >            /*     0xf8000000 */
> >            partition at 0x0 {
> >                label = "factory-image";
> >                reg = <0x00000000 0x01000000>;
> >            };
> >            /*     0xf9000000 */
> >            partition at 0x01000000 {
> >                label = "app-image-1";
> >                reg = <0x01000000 0x01000000>;
> >            };
> > cheers pieter
> >
> 
> Hi do have these definitions, at a higher level:

The address-cells and size-cells definitions are not inherited.  They
cover only the immediate children of the node where they appear.
Otherwise the default values apply (address-cells == 2, size-cells ==
1), which are not right for your case.

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