Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Device Tree on ARM platform

[Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov]

David Miller wrote:

> From: Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009
> 10:15:13 +0100
> 
>> For example, how would an IrDA transceiver be expressed in OF?
> 
> As a child device node of the IRDA device, with associated properties.
> 
> You can express _ANYTHING_ using the OF device tree.  It is not even
> something to discuss, it's flexible enough.

Hmmm. How to express the following situation:
On one of my platforms (sharp tosa) the backlight controller
is separated into two parts: one sitting on SPI, one on the I2C.
The tricky part is that the I2C part is only available when some
of registers of SPI part are programmed in a specific way.

-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry


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