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From: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger•com>
To: avorontsov@ru•mvista.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale•com>
Subject: Re: powerpc/85xx: Add support for the "socrates" board (MPC8544)
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:36:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D3197C.7000806@grandegger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090331155443.GA28242@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru>

Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 09:05:28AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> [...]
>>>>>>> +       soc8544@e0000000 {
>>>>>>> +               #address-cells = <1>;
>>>>>>> +               #size-cells = <1>;
>>>>>>> +               device_type = "soc";
>>>>>> Drop device_type here too.
>>>>> Grrr, I just realized that removing the devices type "soc" has broken
>>>>> fsl_get_sys_freq(). See:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.29/arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_soc.c#L80
>>>>>
>>>>> We need a quick fix and we could take the occasion to establish a common
>>>>> function for the MPC52xx as well, but it's not obvious to me how to find
>>>>> the SOC node without the device type property.
>>>> SoC node should have a compatible property, just like everything else.
>>>>
>>>> compatible = "fsl,mpc8544-immr";  (immr == Internally Memory Mapped Registers)
>>>>
>>>> Many other boards already do this.
>>> Yes, it does, but searching for the SOC node is not straight-forward
>>> because there is no common compatibility string but many CPU-specific
>>> compatibility strings, e.g. "fsl,mpc8560-immr", etc. Have I missed
>>> something?
>> Choose a new value ("fsl,mpc-immr" perhaps?), document exactly what it
>> means, and add add it to the end of the compatible list.
> 
> As Scott Wood once pointed out, IMMR does not exists for MPC85xx
> parts. There it's called CCSR.
> 
> See this thread:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org/msg12665.html
> 
> I still think that
> "fsl,mpc83NN-immr", "fsl,soc", "simple-bus" for 83xx
> and
> "fsl,mpc85NN-ccsr", "fsl,soc", "simple-bus" for 85xx
> 
> would be OK, at least to start with. We can always deprecate "fsl,soc"
> compatible in favour of something more elegant, but "fsl,soc" should be
> just fine to replace device_type = "soc".
> 
> Also, there is another good thing about "fsl,soc" -- U-Boot already
> finds it for 83xx CPUs. ;-)

Ugh! I just realize the full impact of removing device type "soc". It
will break compatibility with U-Boot for many boards. Is it worth it?

Wolfgang.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-01  7:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-19 15:26 powerpc/85xx: Add support for the "socrates" board (MPC8544) Wolfgang Grandegger
2009-03-20  4:10 ` David Gibson
2009-03-20 20:12   ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2009-03-20 22:02   ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2009-03-20  4:26 ` Kumar Gala
2009-03-20 20:16   ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2009-03-20  5:05 ` Grant Likely
2009-03-20 11:57   ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2009-03-31  9:35   ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2009-03-31 13:23     ` Grant Likely
2009-03-31 13:36       ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2009-03-31 15:05         ` Grant Likely
2009-03-31 15:54           ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-03-31 16:02             ` Grant Likely
2009-04-01  7:36             ` Wolfgang Grandegger [this message]
2009-04-01 12:40               ` Grant Likely
2009-04-01 13:10                 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2009-04-01 13:27                   ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-01 13:49                     ` Grant Likely
2009-04-02  6:38                     ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2009-04-02 13:47                       ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-02 18:50                         ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2009-04-02 19:52                           ` Kumar Gala

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