[U-Boot-Users] [RFC][PATCH] fdt fixup

[Sergej Stepanov]

Am Freitag, den 02.11.2007, 08:56 -0600 schrieb Grant Likely:
> On 11/2/07, Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > > Possibly true; but I am concerned that it just trades one fragile
> > > method (strict path) for another (expected differences between nodes
> > > for identical devices in the tree)
> >
> > Yeah, I guess the best one can do is leave it up to the developer to
> > pick the right method.  Its not as if we'd get ride of explicit path
> > fixups.
> >
> > The idea of aliases is looking more and more appealing to me.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> It also an area where device_type might actually be a useful property
> if it is used to auto enumerate devices of the same type.  ie. If the
> dtb doesn't explicitly specify eth* aliases, then u-boot could
> enumerate them so that generic fixup routines can be used and so Linux
> (or other OS) can use the same device numbering as u-boot.
> 
sorry...
in chosen-node select defaults, for example?

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