On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 02:43:59AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>>>>
>>>> I'm puzzled. Could someone point me to some real code where cell-
>>>> index
>>>> is used as a pointer into some global data. Sorry for my ignorance.
>>>
>>> http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-June/057254.html
>>
>> Yep, I saw that it's used for I2C (and SPI). But "cell-index" is also
>> defined for network, serial and PCI nodes, which are also assigned via
>> aliases.
>
> Some of this is for the future. There are other SoC registers (like on
> 85xx in GUTS) that need index information.
Likewise for 4xx (where the 'cell-index' notation originated), the
index value is the number used throughout the user manual and
(thereby) in power control registers and the like.
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