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 13:33:53 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51100D21.9050505@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130204191552.GQ22517@atomide.com>
On 02/04/2013 01:15 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti•com> [130204 10:49]:
>> On 02/04/2013 11:45 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> Yes the physical SYSBOOT pins can be reused as GPIO, but that's are already
> handled by the padconf and GPIO registers. This is a different register
> showing the boot time pin values for some pins. So it makes sense to use
> generic pinconf to make the pin values available to the client drivers
> as needed.
>
> The advantage doing it this way is that we don't need to export any omap
> custom functions to the drivers from the SCM driver. This way we need zero
> platform glue code, and can deal with it directly in the drivers in a
> generic way. And all we need to do is just need to map the SoC specific
> SYSBOOT pin register in the .dts files.
I see what you are saying exporting the state in control_status register
via the pinconf. That could work.
> It may also make sense to export DEVICETYPE this way. At least early omaps
> had the GP vs HS mode configured by pulls on some pins during the boot time.
> So those bits too may reflect actual physical pins during the boot time
> configured by the efuse settings?
I *believe* that was only omap1.
>>>>> 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?
>
> I suggest just passing it in in pdata for now for the legacy boot. Then
> I suggest we make what we can generic with pinconf in the long run.
I don't see why we would want to export a function pointer to
omap_pm_get_dev_context_loss_count() with pinconf. Have we got our wires
crossed here?
Jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-04 19:33 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
2013-02-04 19:15 ` Tony Lindgren
2013-02-04 19:33 ` Jon Hunter [this message]
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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