Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755780AbZCZADN (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:03:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753483AbZCZAC5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:02:57 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:48180 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752251AbZCZAC4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:02:56 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/57] microblaze_v7: Open firmware files From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: avorontsov@ru.mvista.com Cc: Arnd Bergmann , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, monstr@monstr.eu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, john.williams@petalogix.com In-Reply-To: <20090323205305.GA10576@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> References: <1237408284-8674-1-git-send-email-monstr@monstr.eu> <4b5aee01d11fc790c7842838ea63a82ee3273003.1237407249.git.monstr@monstr.eu> <200903231951.23902.arnd@arndb.de> <20090323205305.GA10576@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:01:39 +1100 Message-Id: <1238025699.25062.756.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 817 Lines: 19 On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 23:53 +0300, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > It took me approx. 4 hours to factor out the code and make a > proof-of-concept FDT support for a little-endian ARM platform. ;-) > (The device tree was only describing a cpu and a nor flash, though. > No support for interrupt- and gpio-controllers. And no support for > U-Boot, I just built the dtb file into the kernel). ARM could benefit tremendously I believe from a similar virtualized interrupt mapping & OF tree to powerpc for their gazillions of weirdly cascaded interrupt controller setups :-) Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/