RFC: cpm2_devices.c
Kumar Gala
kumar.gala at freescale.com
Fri Jun 17 01:33:23 EST 2005
Dan,
If I understand you correctly this is not any different than how we
handle the TSEC (gianfar) on 85xx. The platform device structure just
gives us physical address (start & end) and IRQs and we use a structure
in the driver that maps to the start address.
- kumar
> Having just converted an different SoC part from using offsets to data
> structures, I have to say that tables/defines of offsets are more of a
> mess
> than a data structure. We don't have to define the whole of the IMMAP,
> but
> using the data structures for the individual device spaces is quite
> effective.
> The advantage of using the data structure is it also conveys the data
> type
> size, adding a level error checking. I also dislike io accessor
> functions/macros,
> especially on these processor specific devices.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- Dan
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