> > I think crystal clear terminology will be difficult to come up with > here. > > > > I remember having the same problem in v3 dts. Basically, there are four > possible states I can think of for devices: > 1. Enabled The most common case.
> 2. Disabled So does this mean "not enabled?" > 3. Ignored Meaning that it isn't touched at all. > 4. Hidden Meaning that it doesn't respond. > (5. Configured, but enable not touched) I guess this one is ambiguous to me. > Not all states are possible on all chipsets, but from time to time one > of the functions is needed. By the way, we have various problems on > SuperI/O chips where we want to configure GPIOs with their own LDN and > the constraint is that the usual enable bit must not be set for the GPIO > LDN. I think things like that have to be handled in device-specific code. It seems unlikely that we could handle that correctly from the Config files. Thanks, Myles -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
