On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Scott Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> >> On Tuesday 05 August 2008, John Rigby wrote: >>> >>> This will allow the eventual removal of device_type = "soc" >>> properties in soc nodes. >> >> Stupid question, but why not remove immrbase instead? >> >> It seems that all users can be converted to use a reg >> property of some actual device instead of making assumptions >> about the register layout of the whole SOC. > > That wouldn't eliminate the need for the alias, though -- u-boot needs to > find the node to fill in properties.
(already made this comment on one of the later patches, but it is more relevant here...) I don't think that using aliases is the best solution. I'd rather see U-Boot search for the appropriate compatible value for the IMMR node. g. > > -Scott > _______________________________________________ > Linuxppc-dev mailing list > Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org > https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev > -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
