Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/5] powerpc/85xx: implement hardware timebase sync

From: Scott Wood <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:10:28 -0500

On 06/29/2012 11:12 AM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Scott Wood wrote:
>> Why is this different from anywhere else where we have a list of
>> compatibles to match, often based on various SoCs?  Note that we
>> explicitly want to match only certain SoCs here.
> 
> I was just hoping to find a way to avoid an ever increasing list of
> compatible strings. 

PCI drivers have to put up with it, why should we be different? :-)

> Other posts on this thread imply that this code could
> work for all multi-core e500 parts.

That list covers all multi-core e500v2 parts that I know of.  Corenet
based chips will need a slightly different implementation, since the
registers are different.

-Scott