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Date:      Thu, 29 Sep 2016 23:16:48 -0500
From:      Justin Hibbits <jhibbits@freebsd.org>
To:        Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org,  svn-src-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r306473 - head/sys/dev/fdt
Message-ID:  <CAHSQbTC677Z8dhS8ty_Vcpr9TBtHiMTKFs_1p_ak1FAt10GSQw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <889ba670-a36a-8b80-d9f9-8d8d23cce423@freebsd.org>
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It's more cosmetic than anything else. I did realize a potential
complication with it tonight, too, if newbus devices are created as
children (like DMA channels in this case), and have the cell-index
property. If you object it's an easy revert.

- Justin

On Sep 29, 2016 23:10, "Nathan Whitehorn" <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote:

> I'm a little dubious about this change. It's not really safe to rely on
> newbus unit numbers anywhere, so making them meaningful in this context
> seems like a bad idea.
> -Nathan
>
> On 09/29/16 19:48, Justin Hibbits wrote:
>
>> Author: jhibbits
>> Date: Fri Sep 30 02:48:40 2016
>> New Revision: 306473
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/306473
>>
>> Log:
>>    Use the cell-index property as the unit number if available.
>>       Summary:
>>    NXP/Freescale, among others, includes an optional cell-index property
>>    on nodes to denote the SoC block number of the node.  This can be
>> useful if, for
>>    example, a node is disabled or nonexistent in the fdt, or the blocks
>> are not
>>    organized in address-sorted order.  For instance, on the P1022, DMA2
>> is located
>>    at CCSR offset 0xC000, while DMA1 is located at 0x21000.
>>       Reviewed By: jmcneill
>>       Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8054
>>
>> Modified:
>>    head/sys/dev/fdt/simplebus.c
>>
>> Modified: head/sys/dev/fdt/simplebus.c
>> ============================================================
>> ==================
>> --- head/sys/dev/fdt/simplebus.c        Fri Sep 30 01:42:29 2016
>> (r306472)
>> +++ head/sys/dev/fdt/simplebus.c        Fri Sep 30 02:48:40 2016
>> (r306473)
>> @@ -265,6 +265,15 @@ simplebus_add_device(device_t dev, phand
>>         if ((ndi = simplebus_setup_dinfo(dev, node, di)) == NULL)
>>                 return (NULL);
>> +
>> +       /*
>> +        * If the order is unspecified, use the cell-index field, if
>> available.
>> +        * The cell-index property is not part of any standard, but is
>> widely
>> +        * used in NXP/Freescale and Marvell device trees.
>> +        */
>> +       if (order == -1)
>> +               OF_getencprop(node, "cell-index", &order, sizeof(order));
>> +
>>         cdev = device_add_child_ordered(dev, order, name, unit);
>>         if (cdev == NULL) {
>>                 device_printf(dev, "<%s>: device_add_child failed\n",
>>
>>
>



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