[U-Boot] [PATCH] Add mpc5125ads board and processor to the mpc512x family

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear John,

In message <4b73d43f0910191545x3127cba5w7fdec3f6382138e3 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> The register map for 5125 does not just change the size of the registers.
> Some registers change locations.  The issue is that the hardware guys
> decided to "fix" the old broken register access.  The 5200, 5121, 5123 had
> some registers that were:

I always stand fascinated about the inventiveness of these guys; even
when just releasing a new chip from one family where one would expect
basicly upward-compatibility they  find  ways  not  to  simplify  the
design but to make it more complex and wonderful. Nobody else does so
much to save our jobs. 

> So the problem is painful but I believe doable.  The problem I never
> resolved was dealing with this mess in linux where the same binary has to
> work with both platforms.  I decided that the register accesses needed to be
> done via an offsets array that was populated at run time but I never got
> around to implementing that.

Heh. I don't envy the guy who has to do this.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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