[PATCH v2 5/5] ARM: Exynos: Add basic dts file for Samsung Trats board

Kukjin Kim kgene.kim at samsung.com
Fri Sep 7 22:47:15 EDT 2012


Tomasz Figa wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for reviewing the patch.
> 
> On Wednesday 05 of September 2012 09:35:49 Thomas Abraham wrote:
> > > +
> > > +       memory {
> > > +               reg =  <0x40000000 0x20000000
> > > +                       0x60000000 0x20000000>;
> > > +       };
> >
> > Why does this have to be split. Why not have a single entry with the
> > size as 0x40000000?
> 
> The memory node corresponds to struct meminfo and each entry (with two
> values) makes one struct membank defining a memory bank.
> 
Well...

> I've been talking with Kyungmin about this. Originally bootloaders used to
> report 4 banks of 256 MiB, but it turned out that real bank configuration
> on Trats is 2 banks of 512 MiB.
> 
I think, following should ok here.

memory {
	reg = <0x40000000 0x40000000>;
};

> I'm not into memory management internals, so I don't know if this has any
> significance, but I defined the node to represent the real configuration
> (otherwise I would have probably used 4 banks of 256 MiB and drop the 4th
> patch).
> 
> > > +               max8997_pmic at 66 {
> > > +                       compatible = "maxim,max8997-pmic";
> > > +
> > > +                       reg = <0x66>;
> >
> > Probably, the interrupts can be listed when we have pinctrl driver
> > merged in Samsung tree.
> >
> 
> Right.
> 
Note, you can do it on top of samsung tree :-)

Thanks.

Best regards,
Kgene.
--
Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim at samsung.com>, Senior Engineer,
SW Solution Development Team, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.




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