On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 03:33:10PM +0100, Pawel Moll wrote:
> > OK, I'll try to propose documentation for these:
> >         * arm,pl180
> 
> You can skip this one - I'll add the description together with the MMCI
> driver bindings (it will be 180 and 181, by the way :-)

Done.

> > > > +                       // Timer init is hardcoded in v2m_timer_init(), 
> > > > for now.
> > > > +                       // timer@11000 {
> > > > +                       //      compatible = "arm,arm-sp804";
> > > 
> > > arm,sp804 is more consistent. I believe the sp804 does have the periphid
> > > registers, so arm,primecell should also be added.
> > 
> > Do you mean "does not have"?  If so, the periphid will be needed -- thanks 
> > for
> > pointing it out in that case.
> 
> I think Rob meant it should be
>       compatible = "arm,sp804", "arm,primecell",
> as SP804 contains the PrimeCell periphid registers, so will be
> recognized by amba bus driver.

Oh, right -- misunderstanding, sorry for that.

> > I will make the names consistent.  These were pasted from someone Lorenzo's
> > older patches, and failed to sport e the inconsistency since I wasn't
> > actually making use of these entries yet.
> > 
> > > > +                       //      reg = <0x11000 0x1000>;
> > > > +                       //      interrupts = <2>;
> > > > +                       // };
> > > > +
> > > > +                       // timer@12000 {
> > > > +                       //      compatible = "arm,arm-sp804";
> > > > +                       //      reg = <0x12000 0x1000>;
> > > > +                       // };
> > > 
> > > Just because Linux is not using it, doesn't mean you should comment it 
> > > out.
> > 
> > From the point of view of describing the hardware, yes.  However, I was
> > a bit worried that if sp804 is turned into a full driver, it will get
> > initialised twice -- once explicitly and once in of_platform_populate()...
> > at least until the baord code is adapted to work properly with the new
> > driver.
> > 
> > Commenting these entries out for now seemed a good idea to avoid the 
> > flag-day
> > hazard.  Am I being too cautious?
> 
> I think you are ;-) Besides my static-mapping-rework is already using
> those...

OK, I will uncomment it then.

Cheers
---Dave
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