From: David Jander <david.jander@protonic•nl>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>, wd@denx•de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/12] fs_enet: Add MPC5121 FEC support.
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 08:56:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905110856.59043.david.jander@protonic.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090508.005251.14244652.davem@davemloft.net>
On Friday 08 May 2009 09:52:51 David Miller wrote:
> From: John Rigby <jcrigby@gmail•com>
> Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 20:02:53 -0600
>
> > Also don't forget that the register map is the same on 512x, mx and
> > coldfire platforms but not on the other ppc platforms so if you want
> > to one binary to rule them all you will need to have an offest table
> > or some such.
>
> I would suggest using ->read_reg() ->write_reg() methods for abstracting
> this. That's how we handle all of the different way ESP scsi chips
> have their registers wired up.
>
> I/O register reads take hundreds, if not thousands of CPU cycles so,
> relatively speaking, the indirection costs absolutely nothing.
I fear the memory-mapped I/O of the PowerPC SoC is *slightly* faster, so in
terms of cycle count, this WILL matter, although depending on how much
register-I/O the driver does, overall performance impact _may_ still be
negligible. I suggest testing this (benchmarks) before and after the change.
Best regsards,
--
David Jander
Protonic Holland.
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Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-06 20:15 [PATCH 00/16] Add support for MPC512x Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-06 20:15 ` [PATCH 01/12] fs_enet: Use defines to set driver tunables Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-06 20:35 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-06 22:02 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-06 22:41 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-06 20:15 ` [PATCH 02/12] fs_enet: Add MPC5121 FEC support Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-06 20:33 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-06 21:08 ` Scott Wood
2009-05-06 22:01 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-06 22:29 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-06 22:41 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-07 14:09 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-08 2:02 ` John Rigby
2009-05-08 7:52 ` David Miller
2009-05-11 6:56 ` David Jander [this message]
2009-05-07 8:14 ` David Jander
2009-05-07 13:05 ` Kumar Gala
2009-05-06 20:40 ` David Miller
2009-05-06 22:06 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-06 20:41 ` Scott Wood
2009-05-06 22:09 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-06 22:39 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-14 12:38 ` Piotr Zięcik
2009-05-14 14:00 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-18 22:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-05-19 11:26 ` Piotr Zięcik
2009-05-19 21:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-05-21 8:34 ` Piotr Zięcik
2009-05-21 15:36 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-06 20:15 ` [PATCH 03/12] fs_enet: Add FEC TX Alignment workaround for MPC5121 Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-06 20:37 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-06 22:12 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-06 22:42 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-08 2:36 ` John Rigby
2009-05-06 20:15 ` [PATCH 04/12] mpc5121: Added reset module registers representation Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-06 20:29 ` Scott Wood
2009-05-06 21:57 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-06 20:39 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-06 22:14 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-06 20:15 ` [PATCH 05/12] mpc5121ads: Added Reset Module node to DTS Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-06 20:40 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-06 22:16 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-06 22:46 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-06 20:15 ` [PATCH 06/12] mpc5121: Added NAND Flash Controller driver Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-06 20:59 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-08 2:22 ` John Rigby
2009-05-08 3:07 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-07 8:08 ` David Jander
2009-05-08 3:30 ` John Rigby
2009-05-13 8:41 ` Piotr Zięcik
2009-05-06 20:15 ` [PATCH 07/12] mpc5121ads: Clean up and fix NAND description in mpc5121ads DTS Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-06 21:00 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-06 20:15 ` [PATCH 08/12] mpc5121: Added I2C support Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-06 21:01 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-06 22:19 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-06 22:51 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-07 2:41 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-07 6:36 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2009-05-18 13:57 ` Piotr Zięcik
2009-05-18 14:11 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-18 14:29 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2009-05-19 7:47 ` Piotr Zięcik
2009-05-19 8:10 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2009-05-08 2:12 ` John Rigby
2009-05-08 3:01 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-06 20:15 ` [PATCH 09/12] mpc5121ads: Added I2C RTC node to mpc5121ads DTS Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-06 21:02 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-07 6:45 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2009-05-06 20:15 ` [PATCH 10/12] mpc5121: Add MPC5121 Real time clock driver Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-06 21:03 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-06 21:06 ` Wolfram Sang
2009-05-06 22:40 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-08 2:41 ` [rtc-linux] " John Rigby
2009-05-08 15:53 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-08 16:09 ` Alessandro Zummo
2009-05-08 19:18 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-08 16:10 ` Alessandro Zummo
2009-05-06 20:15 ` [PATCH 11/12] mpc5121: Added MPC512x DMA driver Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-06 21:07 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-08 2:49 ` John Rigby
2009-05-19 1:37 ` Hongjun Chen
2009-05-19 8:03 ` Piotr Zięcik
2009-05-20 0:39 ` Hongjun Chen
2009-05-06 20:15 ` [PATCH 12/12] mpc5121: Added default config for MPC5121 Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-06 21:08 ` Grant Likely
2009-05-06 22:23 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-06 22:48 ` Grant Likely
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