Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/4] powerpc: refactor of_get_cpu_node to support other architectures

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 08:09:36 +1000

On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 12:50 +0200, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> I wonder how would this handle uniprocessor ARM (pre-v7) cores, for
> which 
> the updated bindings[1] define #address-cells = <0> and so no reg 
> property.
> 
> [1] - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/260795

Why did you do that in the binding ? That sounds like looking to create
problems ... 

Traditionally, UP setups just used "0" as the "reg" property on other
architectures, why do differently ?

Ben.