mvebu-mbus: defining a DT binding

Jason Gunthorpe jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com
Mon Apr 8 13:03:10 EDT 2013


On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:39:56AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> > Realistically this size should never be used so it doesn't matter if
> > it is 4G or 4G-1 - though obviously 4G is preferred in cases where
> > size cells is 2. :)
> 
> But the PCI bus already is required to have #size-cells=<2>, and
> we would only use this in the ranges property of the PCI node, right?

Yes, my bad, you are correct.

> > So.. I don't think it matters today for mvebu, but something to think
> > about - shuffling the firmware's address map could be dangerous.
> 
> I would at least expect a secure-mode firmware to prevent the OS
> from changing any mappings that the firmware relies on, but I see
> what you mean.

Right.

Jason



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