[PATCH 1/2] Add MPC52xx Interrupt controller support for ARCH=powerpc
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Nov 1 12:06:14 EST 2006
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 16:08 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
> On 10/31/06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> >
> > > This definitely needs to be removed. It's used to figure out which
> > > driver should drive a PSC (based on function). We've got a device
> > > tree to provide this information now.
> >
> > Which means we should define how that is presented in the devie-tree and
> > Nicolas should then update his tree accordingly...
>
> How about this:
>
> <function> := one of [serial, spi, i2s, ac97]
>
> <function>@<psc_offset> {
> port-number = <logical port number>; // so /dev/ttyPSC#
> connects to something sane
> compatible = "mpc5200b-psb\0mpc52xx-psc";
> ... other stuff ...
> };
>
> Function is encoded in the node name, and the compatible property
> tells linux that it is an mpc52xx-psc in <function> mode.
Looks good to me.
Ben.
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