[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
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