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From: dave.martin@linaro•org (Dave Martin)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: vexpress: initial device tree support
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:49:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110921154939.GF2872@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1316615590.4611.624.camel@hornet.cambridge.arm.com>

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 03:33:10PM +0100, Pawel Moll wrote:
> > OK, I'll try to propose documentation for these:
> >         * arm,pl180
> 
> You can skip this one - I'll add the description together with the MMCI
> driver bindings (it will be 180 and 181, by the way :-)

Done.

> > > > +			// Timer init is hardcoded in v2m_timer_init(), for now.
> > > > +			// timer at 11000 {
> > > > +			//	compatible = "arm,arm-sp804";
> > > 
> > > arm,sp804 is more consistent. I believe the sp804 does have the periphid
> > > registers, so arm,primecell should also be added.
> > 
> > Do you mean "does not have"?  If so, the periphid will be needed -- thanks for
> > pointing it out in that case.
> 
> I think Rob meant it should be
> 	compatible = "arm,sp804", "arm,primecell",
> as SP804 contains the PrimeCell periphid registers, so will be
> recognized by amba bus driver.

Oh, right -- misunderstanding, sorry for that.

> > I will make the names consistent.  These were pasted from someone Lorenzo's
> > older patches, and failed to sport e the inconsistency since I wasn't
> > actually making use of these entries yet.
> > 
> > > > +			//	reg = <0x11000 0x1000>;
> > > > +			//	interrupts = <2>;
> > > > +			// };
> > > > +
> > > > +			// timer at 12000 {
> > > > +			//	compatible = "arm,arm-sp804";
> > > > +			//	reg = <0x12000 0x1000>;
> > > > +			// };
> > > 
> > > Just because Linux is not using it, doesn't mean you should comment it out.
> > 
> > From the point of view of describing the hardware, yes.  However, I was
> > a bit worried that if sp804 is turned into a full driver, it will get
> > initialised twice -- once explicitly and once in of_platform_populate()...
> > at least until the baord code is adapted to work properly with the new
> > driver.
> > 
> > Commenting these entries out for now seemed a good idea to avoid the flag-day
> > hazard.  Am I being too cautious?
> 
> I think you are ;-) Besides my static-mapping-rework is already using
> those...

OK, I will uncomment it then.

Cheers
---Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-21 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-21  9:19 [PATCH] ARM: vexpress: initial device tree support Dave Martin
2011-09-21 13:24 ` Rob Herring
2011-09-21 14:24   ` Dave Martin
2011-09-21 14:33     ` Pawel Moll
2011-09-21 15:49       ` Dave Martin [this message]
2011-09-21 14:57   ` Grant Likely
2011-09-21 16:01     ` Pawel Moll
2011-09-21 16:17       ` Dave Martin
2011-09-21 16:28         ` Pawel Moll
2011-09-21 16:37     ` Rob Herring
2011-09-21 17:15       ` Dave Martin
2011-09-21 17:47         ` Mitch Bradley
2011-09-22 12:19           ` Dave Martin
2012-01-09 23:26 ` Tabi Timur-B04825
2012-01-10  0:42   ` Mitch Bradley
2012-01-10  2:24     ` Tabi Timur-B04825
2012-01-10 12:22     ` Jamie Lokier
2012-01-10 21:58       ` Timur Tabi
2012-01-10 22:35         ` Mitch Bradley
2012-01-10 23:55           ` Stephen Warren
2012-01-11  0:02             ` Timur Tabi
2012-01-11  0:28           ` Timur Tabi
2012-01-11  6:43             ` Mitch Bradley
2012-01-11 20:17               ` Timur Tabi
2012-01-11 23:20                 ` Mitch Bradley
2012-01-11 23:32                   ` Timur Tabi
2012-01-11 20:29               ` Stephen Warren
2012-01-11 20:32                 ` Timur Tabi
2012-01-11 20:36                   ` Stephen Warren
2012-01-11 21:37                     ` Timur Tabi
2012-01-11 21:57                       ` Stephen Warren
2012-01-12 12:24                     ` Jamie Lokier
2012-01-12 16:49                       ` Stephen Warren
2012-01-11 23:16                 ` Mitch Bradley
2012-01-12  0:15                   ` Stephen Warren
2012-01-12  0:38                     ` Mitch Bradley
2012-01-12  0:47                       ` Mitch Bradley
2012-01-12 16:45                       ` Stephen Warren
2012-01-12 12:09                     ` Jamie Lokier
2012-01-12 16:52                       ` Stephen Warren
2012-01-10 11:04   ` Dave Martin

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