On Jan 24, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > We'll match on "soc" compatible for generic code, and "fsl,soc" > for fsl specific code. > > Unfortunately it's still impossible to remove device_type = "soc" > from the existing device tree, because older u-boots are looking for > it. > > Neither we can remove model number from the soc name to heal > arch/powerpc/boot/cuboot-85xx.c, because then dts'es will be > incompatible with older u-boots again. > > So, just one machine converted so far: MPC8360E-RDK. It's new machine > so we don't care about backward compatibility yet. > > Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > > I know, this patch will conflict with the legacy serial rework[1]. > It's okay though, if [1] will hit galak/powerpc.git first, I'll > simply rebase that patch. > > [1] http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-January/050096.html > > Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt | 18 ++++------ > arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc836x_rdk.dts | 1 - > arch/powerpc/kernel/legacy_serial.c | 3 +- > arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_soc.c | 51 ++++++++++++++ > +----------- > 4 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
this needs a bit more discussion. "fsl,soc" is terrible describe. I think we want some generic for the compat that implies 'soc register space'. - k _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
