Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:10:28 -0500 | From | Scott Wood <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 1/5] powerpc/85xx: implement hardware timebase sync |
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On 06/29/2012 11:12 AM, Timur Tabi wrote: > Scott Wood wrote: >> Why is this different from anywhere else where we have a list of >> compatibles to match, often based on various SoCs? Note that we >> explicitly want to match only certain SoCs here. > > I was just hoping to find a way to avoid an ever increasing list of > compatible strings.
PCI drivers have to put up with it, why should we be different? :-)
> Other posts on this thread imply that this code could > work for all multi-core e500 parts.
That list covers all multi-core e500v2 parts that I know of. Corenet based chips will need a slightly different implementation, since the registers are different.
-Scott
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