From: jon-hunter@ti•com (Jon Hunter)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: OMAP2: Fix GPMC memory initialisation
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 12:46:16 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <511001F8.20306@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130204174501.GO22517@atomide.com>
On 02/04/2013 11:45 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti•com> [130204 07:09]:
>>
>> On 02/02/2013 12:11 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>>> * Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti•com> [130201 17:25]:
>>>>
>>>> On 02/01/2013 03:51 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> How about let's fix this properly to start with so we don't add
>>>>> more blockers moving this code to drivers/bus?
>>>>>
>>>>> Looks like gpmc_mem_init() gets called from gpmc_probe() so
>>>>> we can pass that information in pdev.
>>>>
>>>> I wondered if you would suggest that ;-)
>>>
>>> :)
>>>
>>>> I definitely can and it is probably best. Things like this become
>>>> painful when we move to device-tree. We really need a generic way for
>>>> passing stuff like this to drivers for omap. Our options are auxdata or
>>>> bus notifiers. I am wondering whether we can plug pdata in the
>>>> omap_device bus notifier for device-tree. Let me know if you have any
>>>> thoughts.
>>>
>>> Hmm but in this case can't you just do it based on the compatible
>>> flag? For legacy systems we also need to pass it in pdata.
>>
>> This is a boot-time configuration. So really you need to read the
>> control status register at boot and then determine the mapping. We could
>> store the address of the control status read in the pdata, but I think
>> that is a bit of a hack.
>
> Ah right. Well once we have Haojian's generic pinconf patches merged for
> pinctrl-single, we can set up the CONTROL_STATUS register as a
> pinctrl-single,bits register and query the SYSBOOT_3 pin value directly
> from the driver.
>
> AFAIK SYSBOOT_n values reflect the boot time values of the actual SYSBOOT
> pins, so using generic pinconf there makes sense. But this of course should
> be checked.
Not sure I am a fan of that idea. It is possible the pins could be
re-used as GPIOs after reset. Given that the state at reset is latched
in a register, it is best just to read the register directly.
>>> Regarding omap_device, we should find a way to keep the dependencies
>>> between drivers and the bus code down to minimum. So ideally things
>>> like this would be only done using just the compatible flag. But the
>>> pdata we cannot remove quite yet.
>>
>> Agree. However, there are several drivers today (gpio, dmtimer, mmc,
>> serial, dss, etc), that make use of a function pointer to
>> omap_pm_get_dev_context_loss_count() to determine when the peripheral's
>> state has been lost. When booting with DT this function pointer is not
>> populated and so with DT we currently have no way to determine this. I
>> see this as a blocker to migrating completely to DT. Ideally we would
>> find a way for RPM to handle this and remove the function pointer.
>> However, right now we still need a generic way to pass this type of
>> platform data to drivers.
>
> Yeah pinconf generic won't help us with the legacy boot.
Right. I view all this sort of thing as system-level device information
that some drivers may need. It does not seem that we have a good way to
handle that at the moment. Any ideas?
Jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-04 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-01 16:38 [PATCH 0/2] ARM: OMAP2+: GPMC Fixes Jon Hunter
2013-02-01 16:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: OMAP2+: Prevent potential crash if GPMC probe fails Jon Hunter
2013-02-01 22:08 ` Tony Lindgren
2013-02-08 22:56 ` Jon Hunter
2013-02-09 15:55 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2013-02-14 12:04 ` Philip, Avinash
2013-02-16 22:37 ` Grazvydas Ignotas
2013-02-01 16:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: OMAP2: Fix GPMC memory initialisation Jon Hunter
2013-02-01 21:51 ` Tony Lindgren
2013-02-02 1:22 ` Jon Hunter
2013-02-02 18:11 ` Tony Lindgren
2013-02-04 15:05 ` Jon Hunter
2013-02-04 17:45 ` Tony Lindgren
2013-02-04 18:46 ` Jon Hunter [this message]
2013-02-04 19:15 ` Tony Lindgren
2013-02-04 19:33 ` Jon Hunter
2013-02-04 19:47 ` Tony Lindgren
2013-02-04 19:51 ` Jon Hunter
2013-02-04 22:12 ` Jon Hunter
2013-02-04 22:45 ` Jon Hunter
2013-02-05 23:34 ` Tony Lindgren
2013-02-06 0:22 ` Jon Hunter
2013-02-06 17:28 ` Tony Lindgren
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