Subject: Re: [PATCH] Simple driver for Xilinx SPI controler.

From: Andrei Konovalov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:57:44 +0400

Hi Steve,

Stephen Neuendorffer wrote:
> In order to anticipate future Microblaze support with most of these
> drivers,
> we've been moving towards having all of the Kconfig dependencies on
> XILINX_EDK,

There is no XILINX_EDK in the ko tree.

> rather than XILINX_VIRTEX...

Using XILINX_VIRTEX seems to be a common thing:

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [RFC] Xilinx SystemACE device driver
> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:23:14 -0600
> From: Grant Likely <[email-masked]>
> To: [email-masked], Andrei Konovalov <[email-masked]>,	Peter Korsgaard <[email-masked]>,	Rick Moleres <[email-masked]>, Stefan Roese <[email-masked]>
> 
> Add support for block device access to the Xilinx SystemACE Compact
> flash interface
<snip>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig
> index 17ee97f..08ad23c 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig
> @@ -453,6 +453,12 @@ config ATA_OVER_ETH
>  	This driver provides Support for ATA over Ethernet block
>  	devices like the Coraid EtherDrive (R) Storage Blade.
>  
> +config XILINX_SYSACE
> +	tristate "Xilinx SystemACE support"
> +	depends on XILINX_VIRTEX
> +	help
> +	  Include support for the Xilinx SystemACE CompactFlash interface
> +

BTW the SystemACE has been successfully tested with ppc440 based
board. So XILINX_VIRTEX doesn't imply ppc405.

On the other side,
UART Lite driver (in the ko tree) doesn't depend on both XILINX_EDK and XILINX_VIRTEX

Couldn't Microblaze port use XILINX_VIRTEX too?
IMHO XILINX_VIRTEX is more general name for something inside the Virtex chip (ppc405
core, Microblaze softcore, IP blocks from EDK or elsewhere).

I've recently added XILINX_EDK to linux-xilinx-26.git repository at source.mvista.com,
but to include the level 1 drivers (aka OS independent drivers) from EDK. Haven't
planned to use XILINX_EDK for drivers not using EDK code.
Here is the relevant snippet from arch/ppc/platforms/4xx/Kconfig
(from linux-xilinx-26.git @ source.mvista.com, ko doesn't have XILINX_EDK and the
rest below):

===8<=====================================
config XILINX_VIRTEX_II_PRO
	bool
	select XILINX_VIRTEX

config XILINX_VIRTEX_4_FX
	bool
	select XILINX_VIRTEX

config XILINX_VIRTEX
	bool

# The options selected by EDK based drivers. Not visible from [menu]config.
config XILINX_EDK
	bool
config XILINX_IPIF_V123B
	bool
config XILINX_FIFO_V200A
	bool
config XILINX_DMA_V300A
	bool
===8<=====================================

If we do something like
   config XILINX_MICROBLAZE
	bool
	select XILINX_VIRTEX
in arch/microblaze/Kconfig
would it work?

Thanks,
Andrei