On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 11:09:07AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> On 9/11/07, Michal Simek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > For example emaclite driver needs information about turning on/off ping
> > pong buffer...
> >
> > I would like to make this properly.
>
> FDT design is just as much art as it is science. It takes taste and
> judgement to desgin a nice set of bindings. Your best option is to
> draft something and post it to the linuxppc-embedded mailing list for
> review.
Yes, this is the preferred procedure, for now.
> > And second question is on early console logs and timers setting. I read
> > about aliases in FDT. I think that aliases can cover this setting.
> > For example my design contain 4 serial line and I would like to know which
> > serial line is set on early console.
>
> You use the chosen node for this. In the chosen node, you add a
> property called "linux,stdout-path" which holds the path to your
> console. You can look at examples under arch/powerpc/boot/dts/*
Yes. Currently we don't use /aliases in the flat device tree. This
is possibly a mistake, and something I'm thinking about changing.
But, for now, linux,stdout-path in /chosen is the way to do this.
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