[U-Boot] [PATCH] ppc4xx: HCU5 board: add register dump

Stefan Roese sr at denx.de
Thu Sep 24 11:21:47 CEST 2009


On Wednesday 23 September 2009 19:51:24 Niklaus Giger wrote:
> > > Adds a HCU5 board specific cmd reghcu5 to dump about 140 internal
> > > register which define the HW configuration. Needed for documentation
> > > purposes and to compare different settings.
> >
> > Apart from Peter's comments, I also have a more general comment. Please
> > correct me if I'm wring, but this register dump doesn't seem to be HCU5
> > specific, but PPC440EPx specific. If this is the case, we (you) should
> > probably move this code into the cpu/ppc4xx directory. Perhaps something
> >  like:
> >
> > cpu/ppc4xx/440epx_regdump.c
> >
> > What do you think?
> 
> I feel honoured if you consider this patch useful for other boards, too. I
> will rename the cmd to "440epx_regdump" unless you have a better idea.

Thinking a bit more about it, we should probably choose a more generic name, 
so that other 4xx variants may use this command as well. How about just using 
"regdump"?

And please base you patch against the "4xx-register-cleanup" branch of my u-
boot-ppc4xx repo.

Cheers,
Stefan

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