[U-Boot] [PATCH] ads5121: Set offset of NFC registers in device tree.

Kenneth Johansson kenneth at southpole.se
Thu Sep 4 10:13:49 CEST 2008


On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 22:41 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear "John Rigby",
> 
> In message <4b73d43f0809030759g123d5146lc9eb5348799b1838 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> > I'm not sure this right way to deal with this.  Even with the modified
> > offset the 1.5 silicon linux nand driver will not work correctly with
> > the 2.0 silicon nand controller.
> 
> That's right - but al least the Linux kernel will not crash if used on
> one or the other board.

yes but due to the large difference you will probably never se one
driver supporting both version so just changing the name of the hardware
node is probably easier. 

> I think we should fix the NFC base address on the device tree level -
> having to support different Linux kernel configurations depending on
> if you are on old or new hardware is pretty painful.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk
> 



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