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From: dirk.behme@de•bosch.com (Dirk Behme)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] arm64: dts: r8a7795: Add L2 cache-controller nodes
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 09:54:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56B857AC.4090701@de.bosch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdVRhwGh2bvfNSguX0XnMW0eEgLRTCt3Y3-+KfV0Jy9WHw@mail.gmail.com>

On 08.02.2016 09:42, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Dirk,
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Simon Horman <horms@verge•net.au> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 06:21:17PM +0100, Dirk Behme wrote:
>>> On 16.01.2016 15:17, Dirk Behme wrote:
>>>> From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider•be>
>>>>
>>>> Add device nodes for the L2 caches, and link the CPU node to its L2
>>>> cache node.
>>>>
>>>> The L2 cache for the Cortex-A57 CPU cores is 2 MiB large (organized as
>>>> 128 KiB x 16 ways).
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider•be>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@gmail•com>
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> Any further comments to this? If not, could this be applied?
>>
>> Sorry for the delay.
>>
>> This looks good; I have queued it up.
>>
>> It should appear in the next (and devel) branches of my renesas tree soon.
>> And in linux-next whenever it includes my updated next branch.
>
> So you not only dropped the (controversial) timing related properties, but
> in addition:
>
> +               cache-unified;
> +               cache-level = <2>;
>
> At least the "cache-level" property is marked as required in ePAPR.
> For "cache-unified", the wording is not that strict in ePAPR, but that property
> depends on being a unified cache in the first place.
>
> So I think these two properties should be re-added.


If I remember correctly, first, these entries are not used at all on 
ARMv8. And second, I think it was mentioned that we therefore want to 
drop them:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-December/394936.html

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2c2x0.txt?id=0bed4b7aa02c06e05121875dc443295d55b9d91d


Best regards

Dirk

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-08  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-16 14:17 [PATCH v2] arm64: dts: r8a7795: Add L2 cache-controller nodes Dirk Behme
2016-02-03 17:21 ` Dirk Behme
2016-02-05  9:57   ` Simon Horman
2016-02-08  8:42     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-02-08  8:54       ` Dirk Behme [this message]
2016-02-08  9:01         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-02-08 17:08           ` Dirk Behme

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