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From: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale•com>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@Freescale•com>
Cc: mark.rutland@arm•com, devicetree@vger•kernel.org,
	pawel.moll@arm•com, corbet@lwn•net, Geoff.Thorpe@Freescale•com,
	ijc+devicetree@hellion•org.uk, linux-doc@vger•kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, robh+dt@kernel•org,
	Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] dt/bindings: Introduce the FSL QorIQ DPAA BMan
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 23:32:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5451BF49.6050106@Freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1414620996.23458.141.camel__29590.7804662876$1414621051$gmane$org@snotra.buserror.net>

Hello Scott,


On 10/29/2014 05:16 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-10-29 at 16:40 -0500, Emil Medve wrote:
>> Hello Scott,
>>
>>
>> On 10/28/2014 01:08 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 09:36 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>>> On Oct 22, 2014, at 9:09 AM, Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@freescale•com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The Buffer Manager is part of the Data-Path Acceleration Architecture (DPAA).
>>>>> BMan supports hardware allocation and deallocation of buffers belonging to
>>>>> pools originally created by software with configurable depletion thresholds.
>>>>> This binding covers the CCSR space programming model
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale•com>
>>>>> Change-Id: I3ec479bfb3c91951e96902f091f5d7d2adbef3b2
>>>>> ---
>>>>> .../devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/bman.txt       | 98 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>> 1 file changed, 98 insertions(+)
>>>>> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/bman.txt
>>>>
>>>> Should these really be in bindings/powerpc/fsl, aren’t you guys using this on ARM SoCs as well?
>>>
>>> The hardware on the ARM SoCs is different enough that I'm not sure the
>>> same binding will cover it.  That said, putting things under <arch>
>>> should be a last resort if nowhere else fits.
>>
>> OTC started ported the driver to the the ARM SoC and the feedback has
>> been that the driver needed minimal changes. The IOMMU has been the only
>> area of concern, and a small change to the binding has been suggested
> 
> Do we need something in the binding to indicate device endianness?

As I said, I didn't have enough exposure to the ARM SoC so I can't
answer that

> If this binding is going to continue to be relevant to future DPAA
> generations, I think we really ought to deal with the possibility that
> there is more than one datapath instance

I'm unsure how relevant this will be going forward. In LS2 B/QMan is
abstracted/hidden away behind the MC (firmware). I wouldn't
over-engineer this without a clear picture of what multiple data-paths
per SoC even means at this point

> by having phandles and/or a parent container to connect the related
> components.

Connecting the related components is beyond the scope of this binding.
It will soon hit the e-mail list(s) as part of upstreaming the Ethernet
driver


Cheers,

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-30  4:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-22 14:09 [PATCH 1/4] dt/bindings: Introduce the FSL QorIQ DPAA BMan Emil Medve
2014-10-22 14:09 ` [PATCH 2/4] dt/bindings: Introduce the FSL QorIQ DPAA BMan portal(s) Emil Medve
2014-10-22 14:29   ` Mark Rutland
2014-10-22 20:04     ` Emil Medve
2014-10-23 11:16       ` Mark Rutland
2014-10-23 13:28         ` Geoff Thorpe
2014-10-24  9:26         ` Emil Medve
2014-10-28 18:09       ` Scott Wood
2014-10-22 14:09 ` [PATCH 3/4] dt/bindings: Introduce the FSL QorIQ DPAA QMan Emil Medve
2014-10-22 14:37   ` Mark Rutland
2014-10-22 20:05     ` Emil Medve
2014-10-23 11:26       ` Mark Rutland
2014-10-23 13:51         ` Geoff Thorpe
2014-10-24  9:53         ` Emil Medve
2014-10-22 14:09 ` [PATCH 4/4] dt/bindings: Introduce the FSL QorIQ DPAA QMan portal(s) Emil Medve
2014-10-28 18:27   ` Scott Wood
2014-10-28 14:36 ` [PATCH 1/4] dt/bindings: Introduce the FSL QorIQ DPAA BMan Kumar Gala
2014-10-28 18:08   ` Scott Wood
     [not found]   ` <1414519738.23458.84.camel__4795.38602890006$1414521743$gmane$org@snotra.buserror.net>
2014-10-29 21:40     ` Emil Medve
2014-10-29 22:16       ` Scott Wood
     [not found]       ` <1414620996.23458.141.camel__29590.7804662876$1414621051$gmane$org@snotra.buserror.net>
2014-10-30  4:32         ` Emil Medve [this message]
2014-10-30 14:51           ` Scott Wood
     [not found]           ` <1414680683.23458.148.camel__4514.07629666409$1414680744$gmane$org@snotra.buserror.net>
2014-10-30 16:19             ` Emil Medve
2014-10-30 16:29               ` Scott Wood
     [not found]               ` <1414686590.23458.151.camel__44619.4786033176$1414686664$gmane$org@snotra.buserror.net>
2014-10-30 16:45                 ` Emil Medve
2014-10-30 21:26                   ` Scott Wood
2014-10-30 21:30                     ` Emil Medve
2014-10-30 15:10       ` Varun Sethi
2014-10-28 18:19 ` Scott Wood

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