[PATCH/RFC] powerpc: Add MPC5200 Interrupt Controller support.
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sun Nov 5 21:37:11 EST 2006
> > You have changed the mapping of L1/L2 but not the device-tree
> > representation to match them. Which means that you need the ugly hack
> > above. That is not goot. Fix your device-tree instead and do the same
> > split in the tree for L1/L2 than you do in the code.
>
> There is no option here.
I don't agree. Your firmware can always be upgraded. There is no way you
will impose a broken format on everybody else. Unfortunately, being the
first implementation, that's just what you are doing...
At worst, you'll have to do a fixup pass in prom_init.c
> I have done it because other platform may add their how type/compatible/way to find the node.
> For example, I did not find any bestcomm node in the recent lite5200 device-tree.
>
> http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/2006-November/024970.html
They should get there ultimately.
Ben.
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