[PATCH] arm: Kirkwood - Remove kirkwood_setup_wins and rely on the DT binding
Sebastian Hesselbarth
sebastian.hesselbarth at gmail.com
Tue Sep 17 14:48:31 EDT 2013
On 09/17/2013 08:17 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 08:03:01PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>> but until that exists, we thought that pushing the ranges property down
>> to the .dts file was the least horrible solution.
>
> I think we can get away with doing it the other way for kirkwood,
> here are my reasons:
> - Kirkwood is mature now, the DT is basically complete, we shouldn't
> need to churn the ranges in the dtsi much, if at all.
> - There are 31 kirkwood dts files, and none of them need a ranges
> different from the default
> - Kirkwood has more than enough mbus windows, we don't need to be
> stingy with them
> - The board files were already sort of like this, but a big chunk
> of the 31 boards were missing ranges entirely.
>
> Basically, no board file has a ranges, only the kirkwood.dtsi has a
> ranges.
Dove will also have its mbus ranges located in the SoC dtsi for the
same above reasons. The patch is already queued in mvebu/for-next.
Sebastian
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