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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/17] bootwrapper: Add xlate_reg(),
	and use it to find serial registers.
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:27:57PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> xlate_reg() uses the ranges properties of a node's parentage to find the
> absolute physical address of the node's registers.
> 
> The ns16550 driver uses this when no virtual-reg property is found.

This is a pretty large chunk of code for use on just some platforms.
Remind me why we can't just insist on the presence of virtual-reg?

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