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Re: FDT syscon driver



Jared McNeill <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost> wrote:
>How to access it is dictated by the binding spec for your device. You need 
>some way to find the phandle. Two methods I have encountered:

[snip]

The Odroid C2 doesn't use either of them, there are no cross references
and the devices are at the same level in the tree.

>Lookup by device unit is not allowed because any relationship between 
>nodes must be defined in the DT. Device units are not predictable and it's 
>possible that a more specific driver could attach to that node, to 
>implement the syscon interface with additional functionality.

How about lookup by address ?

Plan B is to go back to a traditional config file and ignore the device
tree.


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