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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru•mvista.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson•dropbear.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: powerpc_flash_init(), wtf!?
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 16:02:12 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4639CF44.6020608@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070503070358.GA9430@localhost.localdomain>

Hello.

David Gibson wrote:

>>>Unless someone who actually knows how this code was intended to be
>>>used can suggest a more polite way of fixing it.

>>I guess, the idea was for this stuff to be updated once one of the
>>dts inside boot/ would have physmap nodes added. I have
>>rom/physmap[dts] rehaul in my TODO list, but it has (so far at
>>least) little chance to happen during this merge window. Yet, if
>>someone has suggestions and/or some interest for this to be cured,
>>it will gain priority. Otherwise, I'll replace actual erroneous code
>>with kind of rant that it's up to BSP code to take care of
>>of_devices to be registered, using of_platform_bus_probe() or other
>>way.

> I'm having some trouble parsing that paragraph.  At this stage I don't
> see any reason to hold off on tearing out arch/powerpc/sysdev/rom.c,
> any necessary changes to replace it will go in the platform code or

    It doesn't seem a flexible enough approach. We could continue using 
platform devices then.

> other places.

    Any ideas where else?

WBR, Sergei

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-03 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-01  5:18 powerpc_flash_init(), wtf!? David Gibson
2007-05-03  6:35 ` Vitaly Bordug
2007-05-03  7:03   ` David Gibson
2007-05-03 12:02     ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2007-05-03 12:22       ` David Gibson
2007-05-03 13:28         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-03 16:21           ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-03 16:59             ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-03 17:25               ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-03 21:37             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-03 23:49             ` David Gibson
2007-05-03 12:29       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-04  0:30         ` Vitaly Bordug
2007-05-04  1:28           ` David Gibson
2007-05-03 11:47 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-03 12:30   ` David Gibson
2007-05-03 13:04     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-03 16:20       ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-03 17:17         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-03 17:35           ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-03 18:19             ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-03 21:44               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-03 17:53           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-03 18:07             ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-03 23:56               ` David Gibson
2007-05-04 12:14                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-05 17:36                 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-05 20:19                   ` Segher Boessenkool
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-23 21:57 Mark A. Greer
2007-05-24  0:56 ` David Gibson

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