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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] of: Handle node on PPC32 only
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Hi Leif,

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org> wrote:
> In order to deal with an firmware bug on a specific ppc32 platform
> (longtrail), early_init_dt_scan_memory() looks for a node called
> memory@0 on all platforms. Restrict this quirk to ppc32 kernels only.

This breaks backwards compatibilty with old DTSes (at least on ARM/MIPS,
where you added the missing property in patches 1 and 2 of the series)?

For the Longtrail, I don't care much anymore, as mine died in 2004.
AFAIK, there have never been many users anyway.

> Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> drivers/of/fdt.c | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/of/fdt.c b/drivers/of/fdt.c
> index fa16a91..7368472 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/fdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/fdt.c
> @@ -887,14 +887,19 @@ int __init early_init_dt_scan_memory(unsigned long node, const char *uname,
>
> /* We are scanning "memory" nodes only */
> if (type == NULL) {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC32
> /*
> * The longtrail doesn't have a device_type on the
> * /memory node, so look for the node called /memory@0.
> */
> if (depth != 1 || strcmp(uname, "memory@0") != 0)
> return 0;
> - } else if (strcmp(type, "memory") != 0)
> +#else
> + return 0;
> +#endif
> + } else if (strcmp(type, "memory") != 0) {
> return 0;
> + }
>
> reg = of_get_flat_dt_prop(node, "linux,usable-memory", &l);
> if (reg == NULL)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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