Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/4] powerpc: refactor of_get_cpu_node to support other architectures

From: Tomasz Figa
Date: Sat Aug 17 2013 - 18:22:55 EST


On Sunday 18 of August 2013 08:09:36 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 12:50 +0200, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> > I wonder how would this handle uniprocessor ARM (pre-v7) cores, for
> > which
> > the updated bindings[1] define #address-cells = <0> and so no reg
> > property.
> >
> > [1] - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/260795
>
> Why did you do that in the binding ? That sounds like looking to create
> problems ...

[Copying Lorenzo...]

I'm not the author of the change. I was just passing by, while the
question showed up in my mind. ;)

> Traditionally, UP setups just used "0" as the "reg" property on other
> architectures, why do differently ?

Right, especially since the ARM DT topology parsing code still considers a
device tree without reg property in cpu node invalid.

Best regards,
Tomasz

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