[coreboot] dts general question

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Fri Oct 31 18:25:53 CET 2008


On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it a feature that the device scan depends on the order that the devices
> are listed in in the dts?
>
> What I'm saying is that if you list the HT tunnel before the PCI bridge you
> get different results than if you list the bridge first.  Is this by
> design?  Is the dts supposed to be ordered as if it were a depth-first
> traversal of the devices, or is the device code supposed to be smart enough
> to find the devices as long as they are listed as the children of the
> correct parents?
>

I think it is a feature ... but the phase stuff is supposed to allow
you to ensure ordering.

ron




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