[PATCH 1/2] ARM: kirkwood: add support for OpenBlocks A7 platform
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Oct 31 05:21:23 EDT 2013
Dear Gregory CLEMENT,
On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 10:17:43 +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> > Strange. 'make dtbs' was working here. What was wrong exactly? Just
> > that the unit address (@90000) didn't match the starting address
> > 0x1c0000 ?
>
> The unit address has no special meaning for the device tree it's just a
> way to give a unique name to a node right?
Yes, that's also my understanding.
> So in this case it is not really a problem, but it's just nicer for the
> coherency of the information in the dt to have the unit address which match
> the starting address.
Indeed, it's much better if they match (shame on me for the silly
copy/paste), but having then *not* matching should not cause any DTC
error, I believe.
> I also do a make dtbs ans I didn't get any errors:
> $ make dtbs
> [...]
> DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-openblocks_a6.dtb
> DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-openblocks_a7.dtb
Same here.
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
More information about the linux-arm-kernel
mailing list