[PATCH v5 00/12] MBus DT binding: A new hope

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Wed Jul 3 08:04:02 EDT 2013


On Tuesday 02 July 2013, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 04:04:03PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:

> > Personally, I can't see any disadvantage, and the binding looks much
> > cleaner now. But of course I can be wrong, and I'm open to discussion.
> > 
> > There's another pending issue. Arnd Bergmann has required to add a
> > property to specify the available space within the CPU address space
> > for decoding windows. This property would allow to support fully
> > dynamic mbus window allocation.
> 
> I wonder if this range is implied - eg it is address space not covered
> by the memory node or any mbus ranges? Is there a situation where that
> is not sufficient?

I think it's sufficient, yes. It feels odd to have the mbus code rely
on the contents of the memory node for that, but it would work.

	Arnd



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