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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:54:34 -0400
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Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] Staging: VME Framework for the Linux Kernel
To: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@gefanuc.com>
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On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 08:44, Martyn Welch wrote:
> For using the VME bus for communication between two SBCs, I think we could
> use the CRCSR space to provide some information about the resources used on
> each board for say, a virtual network driver like the rapidIO subsystem
> provides. Possibly using the "device tree" stuff used on PowerPC, Blackfin
> and Sparc archs (I believe) for passing device layout between the firmware
> and kernel at boot.

Blackfin doesnt use device trees and there are no plans to do so
-mike