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Mark A. Greer wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:01:45PM -0600, 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.
> 
> 
> Is this necessary?  Shouldn't there always be a virtual-reg?

None of the dts files in the kernel tree currently have such a property...

-Scott