[coreboot] v3: dts and arrays
Peter Stuge
peter at stuge.se
Fri Feb 15 01:48:53 CET 2008
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 06:35:35PM -0500, Tom Sylla wrote:
> What does "disabled" mean for a real hardware device in the dts?
Spot on.
> I am pretty sure it does not mean "hide the header" (that is not
> possible in general, it is a VSA-ism).
It might. ATA devices, USB, 1394 etc could be disabled => hidden in
factory BIOSes.
> What if I want the VPCI device to exist, but want it "disabled" in
> the normal dts sense of "disable"?
Why would you? And what would you expect 'the normal dts sense of
"disable"' to mean in that case?
> Overloading "disabled" in the dts makes that not possible (and is
> also *really* confusing)
Personally I would kind-of like the hiding to happen for all disabled
devices.
Am I way off track?
//Peter
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