[PATCH] adding ROM chips to device tree: respin
Sergei Shtylyov
sshtylyov at ru.mvista.com
Wed Nov 8 08:25:12 EST 2006
Hello.
Vitaly Wool wrote:
>>>+ - memory_space : Offset and length of the register set for the device.
>>
>> NAK. There's no need to define an extra property where "reg" should be used.
> The register set is actually not there and depends on flash chip type.
> So using regs here is misleading.
This is an I/O resource on the parent bus and using the property other
than "reg" will be misleading. That's the way this spec has it -- "reg" is
used even for the PHY chip numbering on MDIO bus...
>>>+
>>>+ /*
>>>+ * We care only about physmap devices now as there's no
>>>+ * description defined for other ROM types yet
>>>+ */
>> Not true. The description only says that it's *most probably* compatible
>>with "physmap", that's all. I don't see why we have to limit ourselves here.
> Effectively we care about NOR chips and similar which are
> memory-mapped.
So what? How "physmap" follows from this?
> Vitaly
WBR, Sergei
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