From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab•ca>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale•com>
Cc: Mitch Bradley <wmb@firmworks•com>,
Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale•com>,
devicetree-discuss@lists•ozlabs.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/fsl: add device tree binding for QE firmware
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:20:34 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa686aa41003261120o15fea3cev8ca625f389bc8664@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BACD011.5050609@freescale.com>
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Timur Tabi <timur@freescale•com> wrote:
> Grant Likely wrote:
>
>> +- fsl,firmware:
>> + =A0 =A0Usage: Optional.
>> + =A0 =A0Value type: <prop-encoded-array>, encoded array of bytes
>> + =A0 =A0Definition: Contains the QUICC engine firmware blob.
>> [plus any other properties needed for firmware metadata]
>
> This would place the firmware metadata properties inside the QE node itse=
lf, which would break the QE binding.
Not really true. Adding extra properties seldom breaks a binding.
It's a wash when compared with compared with adding a node. But
that's not really an important debate.
> Here, the fsl,qe-firmware-eccr property is associated with the QE itself.=
=A0This is why I want a compatible property for the firmware node, no matt=
er where it is. =A0Then you can do this:
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 qe1: qe@e0080000 {
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 compatible =3D "fsl,qe";
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 fsl,qe_firmware {
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 compatible=3D"fsl,qe-firmware=
";
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 fsl,firmware =3D /bininc/("fi=
rmware-blob.bin");
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 fsl,qe-firmware-eccr =3D <0x0=
0000000 0x00001230>;
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 }
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 ...
> =A0 =A0 =A0 }
>
> Without the compatible property, the only way I'd know that the child nod=
e contains a firmware is to look at the actual name of the child node, whic=
h (as Scott and I believe) is not better than a compatible property.
If it is always a child of a qe node, then I've got no objections.
g.
--=20
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-26 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-23 21:42 [PATCH] powerpc/fsl: add device tree binding for QE firmware Timur Tabi
2010-03-24 6:07 ` Grant Likely
2010-03-24 12:05 ` Timur Tabi
2010-03-24 17:00 ` Segher Boessenkool
2010-03-24 17:07 ` Grant Likely
2010-03-24 17:31 ` Timur Tabi
2010-03-24 18:10 ` Grant Likely
2010-03-24 18:21 ` Mitch Bradley
2010-03-24 18:25 ` Timur Tabi
2010-03-24 18:24 ` M. Warner Losh
2010-03-24 18:31 ` Timur Tabi
2010-03-25 1:49 ` Segher Boessenkool
2010-03-25 14:42 ` Timur Tabi
2010-03-25 16:10 ` Grant Likely
2010-03-25 16:34 ` Scott Wood
2010-03-25 16:46 ` Timur Tabi
2010-03-26 18:23 ` Rafal Jaworowski
2010-03-25 23:53 ` M. Warner Losh
2010-03-26 0:22 ` Timur Tabi
2010-03-25 15:16 ` Scott Wood
2010-03-25 15:29 ` Mitch Bradley
2010-03-25 16:16 ` Grant Likely
2010-03-25 16:36 ` Timur Tabi
2010-03-25 16:50 ` Scott Wood
2010-03-25 16:59 ` Grant Likely
2010-03-25 17:03 ` Timur Tabi
2010-03-25 17:35 ` Grant Likely
2010-03-25 18:05 ` Timur Tabi
2010-03-25 19:53 ` Scott Wood
2010-03-25 20:04 ` Timur Tabi
2010-03-25 21:54 ` Grant Likely
2010-03-25 22:19 ` Timur Tabi
2010-03-25 21:39 ` Grant Likely
2010-03-25 22:47 ` Scott Wood
2010-03-25 21:22 ` David Gibson
2010-03-26 1:26 ` Grant Likely
2010-03-26 15:17 ` Timur Tabi
2010-03-26 18:20 ` Grant Likely [this message]
2010-03-26 18:39 ` Timur Tabi
2010-03-26 18:44 ` Grant Likely
2010-03-26 18:48 ` Timur Tabi
2010-03-26 18:56 ` Grant Likely
2010-03-26 18:58 ` Mitch Bradley
2010-03-26 19:07 ` Grant Likely
2010-03-26 18:48 ` Mitch Bradley
2010-03-24 18:27 ` Scott Wood
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