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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-16 17:58:08 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-16 17:58:08 -0700 |
commit | 489de30259e667d7bc47da9da44a0270b050cd97 (patch) | |
tree | 6807814f443fe2c5d041c3bc3fe3ca8d22a955ca /Documentation | |
parent | 1f1c2881f673671539b25686df463518d69c4649 (diff) | |
parent | bf22f6fe2d72b4d7e9035be8ceb340414cf490e3 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (209 commits)
[POWERPC] Create add_rtc() function to enable the RTC CMOS driver
[POWERPC] Add H_ILLAN_ATTRIBUTES hcall number
[POWERPC] xilinxfb: Parameterize xilinxfb platform device registration
[POWERPC] Oprofile support for Power 5++
[POWERPC] Enable arbitary speed tty ioctls and split input/output speed
[POWERPC] Make drivers/char/hvc_console.c:khvcd() static
[POWERPC] Remove dead code for preventing pread() and pwrite() calls
[POWERPC] Remove unnecessary #undef printk from prom.c
[POWERPC] Fix typo in Ebony default DTS
[POWERPC] Check for NULL ppc_md.init_IRQ() before calling
[POWERPC] Remove extra return statement
[POWERPC] pasemi: Don't auto-select CONFIG_EMBEDDED
[POWERPC] pasemi: Rename platform
[POWERPC] arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c: Move NUMA exports
[POWERPC] Add __read_mostly support for powerpc
[POWERPC] Modify sched_clock() to make CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME more sane
[POWERPC] Create a dummy zImage if no valid platform has been selected
[POWERPC] PS3: Bootwrapper support.
[POWERPC] powermac i2c: Use mutex
[POWERPC] Schedule removal of arch/ppc
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Fixed up conflicts manually in:
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_32.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c
include/asm-powerpc/pci.h
and asked the powerpc people to double-check the result..
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cachetlb.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 13 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt | 40 |
3 files changed, 52 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cachetlb.txt b/Documentation/cachetlb.txt index debf6813934a..866b76139420 100644 --- a/Documentation/cachetlb.txt +++ b/Documentation/cachetlb.txt @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ Here are the routines, one by one: The first of these two routines is invoked after map_vm_area() has installed the page table entries. The second is invoked - before unmap_vm_area() deletes the page table entries. + before unmap_kernel_range() deletes the page table entries. There exists another whole class of cpu cache issues which currently require a whole different set of interfaces to handle properly. diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 18bd2ddccb15..d05e6243b4df 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -297,3 +297,16 @@ Why: Obsolete for multiple years now, NAT core provides the same behaviour. Who: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> --------------------------- + +What: The arch/ppc and include/asm-ppc directories +When: Jun 2008 +Why: The arch/powerpc tree is the merged architecture for ppc32 and ppc64 + platforms. Currently there are efforts underway to port the remaining + arch/ppc platforms to the merged tree. New submissions to the arch/ppc + tree have been frozen with the 2.6.22 kernel release and that tree will + remain in bug-fix only mode until its scheduled removal. Platforms + that are not ported by June 2008 will be removed due to the lack of an + interested maintainer. +Who: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org + +--------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt index d42d98107d49..0c2434822094 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt @@ -42,15 +42,16 @@ Table of Contents 1) Defining child nodes of an SOC 2) Representing devices without a current OF specification a) MDIO IO device - c) PHY nodes b) Gianfar-compatible ethernet nodes + c) PHY nodes d) Interrupt controllers e) I2C f) Freescale SOC USB controllers g) Freescale SOC SEC Security Engines h) Board Control and Status (BCSR) i) Freescale QUICC Engine module (QE) - g) Flash chip nodes + j) Flash chip nodes + k) Global Utilities Block VII - Specifying interrupt information for devices 1) interrupts property @@ -626,6 +627,14 @@ So the node content can be summarized as a start token, a full path, a list of properties, a list of child nodes, and an end token. Every child node is a full node structure itself as defined above. +NOTE: The above definition requires that all property definitions for +a particular node MUST precede any subnode definitions for that node. +Although the structure would not be ambiguous if properties and +subnodes were intermingled, the kernel parser requires that the +properties come first (up until at least 2.6.22). Any tools +manipulating a flattened tree must take care to preserve this +constraint. + 4) Device tree "strings" block In order to save space, property names, which are generally redundant, @@ -1782,6 +1791,33 @@ platforms are moved over to use the flattened-device-tree model. partition-names = "fs\0firmware"; }; + k) Global Utilities Block + + The global utilities block controls power management, I/O device + enabling, power-on-reset configuration monitoring, general-purpose + I/O signal configuration, alternate function selection for multiplexed + signals, and clock control. + + Required properties: + + - compatible : Should define the compatible device type for + global-utilities. + - reg : Offset and length of the register set for the device. + + Recommended properties: + + - fsl,has-rstcr : Indicates that the global utilities register set + contains a functioning "reset control register" (i.e. the board + is wired to reset upon setting the HRESET_REQ bit in this register). + + Example: + + global-utilities@e0000 { /* global utilities block */ + compatible = "fsl,mpc8548-guts"; + reg = <e0000 1000>; + fsl,has-rstcr; + }; + More devices will be defined as this spec matures. VII - Specifying interrupt information for devices |