very minor 405GP and 405GPr PCI difference

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Thu Oct 3 11:12:33 EST 2002


On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:46:26AM +0200, "David M?ller (ELSOFT AG)" wrote:
>
> David Gibson wrote:
> >On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:37:20AM +0200, "David M?ller (ELSOFT AG)" wrote:
> >
> [stuff deleted]
> >>
> >>In your proposed patch, i'm missing a way to install a board specify
> >>mapping either by using special constants, callback functions to board
> >>specific code, .... AFAICS all boards are forced to use the same mapping.
> >
> >
> >That's right.  Is there a reason for boards to have different
> >mappings?  I can well believe that there is, but the current tree
> >doesn't show it - all the boards (in the tree) that have PCI appear to
> >do the same initialisation of the windows.  It doesn't seem worthwhile
> >to create board specific PCI initialisation hooks until we have a
> >board that needs it.
>
> Not all boards using LinuxPPC are in the offical tree (yet). I know at
> least two boards which are using a "non-standard" PCI mapping.

Fair enough.  I'm just trying to come up with the simplest approach
that still provides the flexibility we need.  Based on the evidence
immediately available, what I posted seemed like it.  How about you
tell me something about the non-standard PCI mappings, so I can come
up with something better.

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