use of fsl, in lite5200b.dts in git current

Jon Smirl jonsmirl at gmail.com
Fri Nov 9 09:17:51 EST 2007


On 11/8/07, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
> Jon Smirl wrote:
> > On 11/8/07, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
> >>> As far as I know the only dts using vendor prefixes in the compatible
> >>> attributes is 5200lite one for the gpt entries. Everything else will
> >>> need to be changed.
> >> Look a little harder.  Many of the Freescale boards/devices do it right
> >> -- and yes, we need to fix the ones that don't.
> >
> > I see that there are quite a few with the ibm prefix. But by
> > eyeballing grep output it looks like several hundred attributes need
> > to be fixed. Code referencing these will need to be fixed too.
>
> Several hundred?  I don't think there are several hundred unique
> property names or compatible entries in arch/powerpc/boot/dts *total*,

There are 601 'compatible' attributes in the directory.

> much less that need fixing.  The main ones in fsl-land that I can think
> of are gianfar, i2c, talitos, QE, USB, tsi108, watchdog, SPI, and IPIC.
>
> CPM1 and CPM2 devices, PCI, 85xx memory/cache controllers, and 85xx
> global utilities have the prefix.
>
> For the most part, we've been adding prefixes whenever we have any other
> reason to touch the binding.
>
> > If lite5200 hadn't mixed half prefixed and half not prefixed I never
> > would have started looking at this.
> >
> > Let's make up our minds in the lite5200 dts so that I can sync up my
> > development hardware.
>
> Patches are welcome. :-)
>
> -Scott
>


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Jon Smirl
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