[U-Boot-Users] From: Sergei Poselenov <sposelenov at emcraft.com>

[Scott Wood]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:31:09AM +0200, Stefan Roese wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Sergei Poselenov wrote:
> > What is the reason for doing this? Compiler issues? I see the direct 
> > pointer addressing is used all over the 85xx code.

Either the compiler or the hardware could reorder direct accesses.

> Yes, I just noticed that these registers are accessed this way on (all?) 
> MPC85xx boards. So it is perhaps not a problem with these registers. Not sure 
> though, since I'm no MPC85xx expert. Perhaps somebody from FSL can comment 
> here.

The accessors should be used; please don't copy bad examples. :-)

-Scott