[PATCH 3/3] ARM: shmobile: Initial Alt board device tree

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Simon Horman
> <horms+renesas at verge.net.au> wrote:
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7794-alt.dts
>
>> +/ {
>> +       model = "Alt";
>> +       compatible = "renesas,alt", "renesas,r8a7794";
>> +
>> +       aliases {
>> +               serial0 = &scif2;
>
> Is this correct, i.e. does "scif2" match "ttySC0" below?
>
>> +       };
>> +
>> +       chosen {
>> +               bootargs = "console=ttySC0,38400 ignore_loglevel rw root=/dev/nfs ip=dhcp";
>> +       };

To answer my own question: the alias means that "ttySC0" will be mapped to
the scif2 hardware block, using of_alias_get_id().

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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