On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 05:09:36PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Olof Johansson <o...@lixom.net> wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:53:59AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote: > > > >> I also changed the property in the cpu nodes from model to compatible > >> so that the exact CPU version can be specified. This isn't actually > >> in any spec anywhere, but I need something to properly identify the > >> different ARM cores. > > > > I don't see why this has to be in the device tree. It's not there on PPC. > > The exact CPU version is found through the PVR register on PPC, ARM also > > has cpu version and feature registers for runtime probing. > > I had been told that they runtime registers weren't reliable. If I'm > misinformed, then yes the compatible value can be dropped from the cpu > nodes.
Hi all, If it's not too painful to keep, I think it will be valuable if one want's to instantiate HW based/from this same device tree. For example for emulators. Cheers _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
