From: David Gibson <david@gibson•dropbear.id.au>
To: Yoder Stuart-B08248 <stuart.yoder@freescale•com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/16] Add device tree for Ebony
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:27:01 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070214232701.GF16279@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9696D7A991D0824DBA8DFAC74A9C5FA302A1B86F@az33exm25.fsl.freescale.net>
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 01:08:01PM -0700, Yoder Stuart-B08248 wrote:
>
> > >> Hmm. There are two "soc" devices here, one nested under the
> > >> first??
> > >>
> > >> I'm assuming these are two levels of busses the opb bus is attached
> > >> to the plb bus. Is the "soc" device_type the right way to
> > >> do this?
> > >
> > > Right, OPB hangs off of PLB in this case. I dunno if "soc" is the
> > > right
> > > device type for them though.
> >
> > I would use device_type "plb" (or "plb4") and "opb" I think.
> > Similar to how PCI and ISA etc. busses are represented.
>
> I think we should avoid making up new device_types unlesss it
> really is necessary.
>
> Is it really necessary to distinguish between devices on
> the PLB or OPB?
Well.. maybe. There are registers (DCR, not MMIO) in the PLB<->OPB
bridge. I don't think the actual mapping can be changed, but some
error reporting and arbitration are controller there. I think it's
better to represent the two busses, in case the distinction becomes
important at some point.
> As I undestand it the "soc" device type is a logical container
> for a group of devices in an SOC, not necessarily a group
> of devices on the same bus. Could we simply list all those
> devices under an "soc" node at the same level.
>
> If for some reason the bus hierarchy distinction _is_ required,
> my suggestion would be to create new generic device type for
> representing an internal bus. The "device_type" is supposed
> to be somewhat general-- "network", "serial", etc.
>
> We could create something like "soc-bus" or "internal-bus" with
> a compatible field that identifies the type of bus.
>
> The general philosophy is a general device_type prooperty and
> a specific compatible property.
Yes, that's partly why I'm using "soc" for now. I've thought that a
new general device_type might be a good idea though. What's a "soc"
and what's an "internal" bus I think are not necessarily clear,
though. I would suggest a type for any memory mapped,
non-hotpluggable, non-probeable bus.
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Thread overview: 111+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-13 6:09 [0/16] Preliminary Ebony (440GP) support for arch/powerpc David Gibson
2007-02-13 6:10 ` [PATCH 6/16] Port 44x MMU definitions to ARCH=powerpc David Gibson
2007-02-13 6:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-13 17:13 ` Roland Dreier
2007-02-13 17:45 ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-13 21:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-13 6:10 ` [PATCH 2/16] More DCR native fixups David Gibson
2007-02-13 6:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-13 6:10 ` [PATCH 8/16] Define FIXED_PORT flag for serial_core David Gibson
2007-02-13 6:10 ` [PATCH 4/16] powerpc: Allow duplicate lmb_reserve() calls David Gibson
2007-02-13 7:05 ` Michael Neuling
2007-02-13 8:48 ` Michael Ellerman
2007-02-13 20:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-13 6:10 ` [PATCH 5/16] powerpc: Add zImage platform hook for kernel address David Gibson
2007-02-13 6:10 ` [PATCH 1/16] Remove ibm4{xx,4x}.h from arch/powerpc David Gibson
2007-02-13 14:19 ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-13 6:10 ` [PATCH 3/16] [powerpc] Use udbg_early_init() on ppc32 David Gibson
2007-02-13 6:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-13 6:10 ` [PATCH 7/16] Early serial debug support for PPC44x David Gibson
2007-02-13 15:04 ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-14 0:16 ` David Gibson
2007-02-14 1:02 ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-14 1:00 ` David Gibson
2007-02-14 2:00 ` Alan Modra
2007-02-14 2:02 ` David Gibson
2007-02-14 2:38 ` Alan Modra
2007-02-14 15:41 ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-14 23:05 ` David Gibson
2007-02-13 6:10 ` [PATCH 13/16] Add initrd properties to device tree from zImage David Gibson
2007-02-13 6:10 ` [PATCH 9/16] Use resource_size_t for serial port IO addresses David Gibson
2007-02-13 6:10 ` [PATCH 11/16] zImage wrapper for Ebony David Gibson
2007-02-13 17:05 ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-14 0:17 ` David Gibson
2007-02-13 6:10 ` [PATCH 14/16] Add arch/powerpc driver for UIC, PPC4xx interrupt controller David Gibson
2007-02-13 6:10 ` [PATCH 10/16] Add support for BSS stack for zImage wrapper David Gibson
2007-02-13 6:10 ` [PATCH 12/16] Automatically lmb_reserve() initrd David Gibson
2007-02-13 7:14 ` Michael Neuling
2007-02-13 6:10 ` [PATCH 15/16] Add device tree for Ebony David Gibson
2007-02-13 20:08 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-14 0:22 ` David Gibson
2007-02-14 1:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-14 4:46 ` David Gibson
2007-02-14 17:54 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-14 23:18 ` David Gibson
2007-02-15 0:25 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-14 17:51 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-14 17:48 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-14 21:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-15 0:03 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-15 0:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-15 1:00 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-15 2:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-15 2:51 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-14 23:17 ` David Gibson
2007-02-15 0:27 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-15 14:02 ` Jon Loeliger
2007-02-15 14:56 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-15 17:02 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-02-15 17:10 ` Scott Wood
2007-02-16 9:20 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-14 16:14 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-02-14 16:32 ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-14 17:58 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-14 20:08 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-02-14 21:12 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-14 21:35 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-02-14 21:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-14 21:59 ` Scott Wood
2007-02-15 0:20 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-14 22:50 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-02-14 22:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-15 0:17 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-15 2:12 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-02-15 2:43 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-15 3:15 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-02-15 14:40 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-16 1:17 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-02-16 9:41 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-15 0:10 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-14 23:32 ` David Gibson
2007-02-14 23:27 ` David Gibson [this message]
2007-02-14 23:22 ` David Gibson
2007-02-14 23:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-15 0:36 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-15 0:31 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-15 1:53 ` David Gibson
2007-02-15 3:09 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-15 3:33 ` David Gibson
2007-02-15 14:47 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-15 10:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-15 14:52 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-15 20:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-16 9:23 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-15 16:37 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-02-15 21:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-16 9:25 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-16 15:32 ` Hartmut Penner
2007-02-16 16:47 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-02-19 12:02 ` Hartmut Penner
2007-02-14 21:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-13 6:10 ` [PATCH 16/16] Support for Ebony in arch/powerpc David Gibson
2007-02-13 17:18 ` Roland Dreier
2007-02-14 0:20 ` David Gibson
2007-02-13 14:37 ` [0/16] Preliminary Ebony (440GP) support for arch/powerpc Josh Boyer
2007-02-13 20:21 ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-13 15:46 ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-14 16:06 ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-14 23:12 ` David Gibson
2007-02-16 2:19 ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-16 2:53 ` David Gibson
2007-02-16 4:33 ` Josh Boyer
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