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

[Grant Likely]

On 11/3/07, Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > So, if the aliases node was populated with common names, or if u-boot
> > could auto-populate the /aliases node with enumerated values for
> > things like 'eth#' and 'serial#', then we could do something like this
> > for fixups:
>
> I dont see how u-boot could auto-populate, that seems to defeat the
> purpose of aliases.

As I said, it *might* make sense.  :-)

I'm thinking in terms of if aliases are provided then use them.  But
that doesn't preclude u-boot assigning aliases to device nodes that
don't have them.

Cheers,
g.

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