[PATCH] fsl/mpic: Document and use the "big-endian" device-tree flag

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Jan 6 05:35:30 EST 2012


On Dec 22, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Kyle Moffett wrote:

> The MPIC code checks for a "big-endian" property and sets the flag
> MPIC_BIG_ENDIAN if one is present.  Unfortunately, the PowerQUICC-III
> compatible device-tree does not specify it, so all of the board ports
> need to manually set that flag when calling mpic_alloc().
> 
> Document the flag and add it to the pq3 device tree.  Existing code
> will still need to pass the MPIC_BIG_ENDIAN flag because their dtb may
> not have this property, but new platforms shouldn't need to do so.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett at boeing.com>
> ---
> .../devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/mpic.txt       |    9 ++++++++-
> arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/pq3-mpic.dtsi            |    1 +
> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

need to update arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/qoriq-mpic.dtsi

- k


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