[U-Boot] [u-boot-release] [PATCH] powerpc/85xx: verify the localbus device tree address before booting the OS

[Scott Wood]

On 11/16/2011 01:58 PM, Swarthout Edward L-SWARTHOU wrote:
>> ... it's possible for the 'reg' property to be wrong.
> 
> Instead of all this, why doesn't u-boot just fix it?
> 
> I have the same annoyance with ccsrbar.
> 
> U-boot controls the ccsrbar address via a user configured #define.
> So instead of having different dts's based on the u-boot ccsrbar,
> why can't u-boot update the device tree?

That will require that U-Boot know where every instance of CCSRBAR is
within the tree, which seems fragile.  Do we have any instances yet of
updating unit addresses from U-Boot?  What about aliases that reference
said unit addresses?

-Scott