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From: sudeep.holla@arm•com (Sudeep Holla)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM64: juno: add NOR flash to device tree
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 12:33:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <562F6EFF.2030404@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdbpD+Kr01hDc7QnL4x_4=A_rnAO+G0CaMce8+5ns+bx2Q@mail.gmail.com>



On 27/10/15 12:22, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm•com> wrote:
>> On 27/10/15 11:55, Linus Walleij wrote:

[...]

>>> Then it is safe to enable NOR flash and AFS in the kernel.
>>
>> *No*, not on Juno. If we need to enable them for other platforms, then
>> we should either disable NOR flash in DT(or even remove it completely
>> whichever is appropriate).
>>
>> Since idle is enable in defconfig and if DT has idle states, then it
>> can't boot for the reason I previously mentioned.
>
> Yeah right I remember that now. Let's say it is safe to enable
> for the tamper-security reason. There may be other reasons
> not to...
>
> If this is about different idle functionalities blocking flash
> access, what we should do is to in Kconfig make it impossible
> to compile in both deep idle states and flash support at the
> same time, as that is how the system really behaves.
>
> I.e do you mean something like this, or am I getting it wrong?
>

But with this you will never enable idle on all VEXPRESS platforms, what
if the issue on Juno is resolved in future silicon. So I prefer DT way
if we have to enable NOR flash in defconfig.

> index 21340e0be73e..07d91776bcfe 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig.arm
> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig.arm
> @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
>   config ARM_CPUIDLE
>           bool "Generic ARM/ARM64 CPU idle Driver"
>           select DT_IDLE_STATES
> +       depends on !(ARCH_VEXPRESS && MTD)
>           help
>             Select this to enable generic cpuidle driver for ARM.
>             It provides a generic idle driver whose idle states are configured
>
> Hiding hardware from the devicetree seems over the top to me,

OK, I agree with you on not hiding. But disabling it seems OK for me as
it's a hardware errata(SROM can't be used and hence NOR is used in warm
reset path)

> it is better to keep the device trees describing the actual hardware

Agreed, but we need a way to specify that it used as alternative for
SROM to workaround the hardware issue and hence not available for Linux.
One way I believe is setting the status as disabled.

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-27 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-15 10:20 [PATCH] ARM64: juno: add NOR flash to device tree Linus Walleij
2015-10-15 11:58 ` Liviu Dudau
2015-10-15 15:20   ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-10-18  9:22   ` Linus Walleij
2015-10-15 15:30 ` Sudeep Holla
2015-10-18  9:25   ` Linus Walleij
2015-10-19 10:17     ` Sudeep Holla
2015-10-19 10:29       ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-19 11:19         ` Linus Walleij
2015-10-19 11:27           ` Leif Lindholm
2015-10-19 21:50             ` Linus Walleij
2015-10-19 11:39           ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-19 14:40             ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-10-19 21:58               ` Linus Walleij
2015-10-20 14:13                 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-10-19 21:55             ` Linus Walleij
2015-10-20 11:20               ` Leif Lindholm
     [not found]                 ` <CAD0U-hKZM-A2N_Lpnzwkt0WmAi+kRR=UOEE4Vr2M-iTo9ikkOg@mail.gmail.com>
2015-10-27 11:55                   ` Linus Walleij
2015-10-27 12:01                     ` Sudeep Holla
2015-10-27 12:22                       ` Linus Walleij
2015-10-27 12:33                         ` Sudeep Holla [this message]
2015-10-27 21:41                           ` Linus Walleij
2015-10-27 12:33                         ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-27 12:41                           ` Sudeep Holla
2015-10-27 21:43                           ` Linus Walleij
2015-10-27 13:20                     ` Ryan Harkin
2015-10-19 11:20         ` Leif Lindholm
2015-10-21 11:18           ` Ryan Harkin
2015-10-26  8:41             ` [PATCH] arm64/efi: register UEFI runtime mmio regions as iomem resources Ard Biesheuvel
2015-10-27 12:08               ` Linus Walleij
2015-10-27 12:31                 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-11-16 12:45                   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-10-27 11:59             ` [PATCH] ARM64: juno: add NOR flash to device tree Linus Walleij

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