[ELDK] Porting a driver to powerpc using FDT

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Jun 15 16:32:16 CEST 2010


Dear "Chris Alfred",

In message <4DF58BD3DB274D98AD449DE697EF1303 at kos> you wrote:
> I am trying to port a DSA (Distributed Switch Architecture) driver for 
> the Micrel KS8995M managed switch to the MPC5200. There is an SPI 
> interface and MII interface managed by the DSA driver.
> 
> I can't understand how probe gets called when the flatted device tree 
> (FDT) system is used, and how to bind such a driver using the FDT (if 
> you have to at all).

This is not an ELDK specific question. You are off topic here. You
will probably have have more luck when posting on more generic Linux
oriented mailing list, say linuxppc-dev - see
Linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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