[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 1/4] arm: Tegra2: Add basic NVIDIA Tegra2 SoC support

Tom Warren twarren.nvidia at gmail.com
Mon Jan 24 21:11:52 CET 2011


Wolfgang (& Mike),

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Tom Warren,
>
> In message <AANLkTinoK+s5OivHAyLg10Z=GWzKCCuJWJDykSSFGc0W at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>>
> ...
>> >> +#define NV_PA_APB_UARTD_BASE (NV_PA_APB_MISC_BASE + 0x6300)
>> >> +#define NV_PA_APB_UARTE_BASE (NV_PA_APB_MISC_BASE + 0x6400)
>> >> +#define NV_PA_PMC_BASE               0x7000E400
>> >
>> > what is the purpose of NV_PA prefix here?
>> NV_Physical_Address - a base address of a HW block (Power Management
>> Cntrlr, etc.)
>
> Well, the NV_ part is not needed, right?
True. I can remove it, but why? It designates this as a
NVIDIA-specific define. I see the same thing
in AT91, OMAP, NetARM, DaVinci, IMX files, etc. etc.

>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
Thanks,

Tom
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