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authorMark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com>2008-01-04 02:40:47 +1100
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2008-01-17 14:57:35 +1100
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[POWERPC] #address-cells & #size-cells properties are not inherited
Fix error in booting-without-of.txt that indicates that a node can inherit its #address-cells and #size-cells definitions from its parent's parent. This is not correct. Signed-off-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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@@ -671,10 +671,10 @@ device or bus to be described by the device tree.
In general, the format of an address for a device is defined by the
parent bus type, based on the #address-cells and #size-cells
-property. In the absence of such a property, the parent's parent
-values are used, etc... The kernel requires the root node to have
-those properties defining addresses format for devices directly mapped
-on the processor bus.
+properties. Note that the parent's parent definitions of #address-cells
+and #size-cells are not inhereted so every node with children must specify
+them. The kernel requires the root node to have those properties defining
+addresses format for devices directly mapped on the processor bus.
Those 2 properties define 'cells' for representing an address and a
size. A "cell" is a 32-bit number. For example, if both contain 2