Re: [LinuxBIOS] MC struct

2007-06-13 Thread Peter Stuge
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:37:27PM -0700, ron minnich wrote: On 6/12/07, ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/7/07, Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A device tree (not list) in code that * is seeded by the mainboard dts, which lists all devices * has device options set from

Re: [LinuxBIOS] MC struct

2007-06-07 Thread Peter Stuge
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:45:30AM -0700, ron minnich wrote: I will try to sum it up but ... there is no way to unify it, short form. I contains very chip-dependent stuff, ranging from the simple array of longs up to a very complex multi-channel, mult-i devfn, multi-address, etc. etc. mess.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] MC struct

2007-06-07 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070607 19:55]: On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:45:30AM -0700, ron minnich wrote: I will try to sum it up but ... there is no way to unify it, short form. I contains very chip-dependent stuff, ranging from the simple array of longs up to a very complex

Re: [LinuxBIOS] MC struct

2007-06-07 Thread ron minnich
I'm fine if somebody wants to work out a MC controller fix. Weirdly enough, it will look like the device model. But that's ok. ron -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] MC struct

2007-06-07 Thread Peter Stuge
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:14:57PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: How does everyone feel abot unions? Bad. I dont think we need them. (Well if we did, it would be an idea) Agreed, if no need then no reason. I think what we want is a generic MC structure. Yes, this sounds good. BUT we

Re: [LinuxBIOS] MC struct

2007-06-07 Thread Peter Stuge
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:25:06AM -0700, ron minnich wrote: I'm fine if somebody wants to work out a MC controller fix. Ah yes - the code. This is where it ended last time too. :p Weirdly enough, it will look like the device model. But that's ok. You mean how it is in v2? Is that so wrong

Re: [LinuxBIOS] MC struct

2007-06-07 Thread ron minnich
On 6/7/07, Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes. It has but they are ordinary pci devices in the tree. we dont have a tree at raminit time (yet?) yes, but it hit me that dts can build two trees, one very limited one for raminit. ron -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org

Re: [LinuxBIOS] MC struct

2007-06-07 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070607 21:16]: On 6/7/07, Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes. It has but they are ordinary pci devices in the tree. we dont have a tree at raminit time (yet?) yes, but it hit me that dts can build two trees, one very limited one for raminit.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] MC struct

2007-06-07 Thread ron minnich
On 6/7/07, Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah. how would that tree be used? to describe the device-independent and device-dependent data. To provide pointers to functions. Pretty much how it is used now. ron -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org

Re: [LinuxBIOS] MC struct

2007-06-07 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070607 21:29]: yeah. how would that tree be used? to describe the device-independent and device-dependent data. To provide pointers to functions. Pretty much how it is used now. Of the memory controller? So far all that memory init had to do was implement