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Message-ID: <4FEDE184.7070109@freescale.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:10:28 -0500
From: Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>
CC: Zhao Chenhui-B35336 <B35336@...escale.com>,
"linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
Wood Scott-B07421 <B07421@...escale.com>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"galak@...nel.crashing.org" <galak@...nel.crashing.org>,
Li Yang-R58472 <r58472@...escale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/5] powerpc/85xx: implement hardware timebase sync
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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