[PATCH 1/2] omap: Remove OMAP_GPMC prompt and usage.

[Premi, Sanjeev]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sascha Hauer [mailto:s.hauer at pengutronix.de] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 7:22 PM
> To: Premi, Sanjeev
> Cc: Belisko Marek; barebox at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] omap: Remove OMAP_GPMC prompt and usage.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 11:05:20AM +0000, Premi, Sanjeev wrote:
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Belisko Marek [mailto:marek.belisko at gmail.com] 
> > > Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 3:46 PM
> > > To: Premi, Sanjeev
> > > Cc: barebox at lists.infradead.org
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] omap: Remove OMAP_GPMC prompt and usage.
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Premi, Sanjeev 
> <premi at ti.com> wrote:
> > > >> -----Original Message-----
> > > >> From: barebox-bounces at lists.infradead.org
> > > >> [mailto:barebox-bounces at lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of
> > > >> Marek Belisko
> > > >> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 2:21 AM
> > > >> To: barebox at lists.infradead.org
> > > >> Cc: Marek Belisko
> > > >> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] omap: Remove OMAP_GPMC prompt and usage.
> > > >>
> > > >> Build for omap platform by default.
> > > >>
> > > >> Signed-off-by: Marek Belisko <marek.belisko at open-nandra.com>
> > > >> ---
> > > >>  arch/arm/boards/beagle/board.c          |    4 ++--
> > > >>  arch/arm/boards/omap343xdsp/board.c     |    2 --
> > > >>  arch/arm/boards/omap3evm/board.c        |    3 +--
> > > >>  arch/arm/boards/phycard-a-l1/pca-a-l1.c |    3 ---
> > > >>  arch/arm/configs/panda_xload_defconfig  |    1 -
> > > >>  arch/arm/configs/phycard_a_l1_defconfig |    1 -
> > > >>  arch/arm/mach-omap/Kconfig              |   10 ----------
> > > >>  arch/arm/mach-omap/Makefile             |    3 +--
> > > >>  drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig                |    1 -
> > > >>  9 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> > > >>
> > 
> > [snip]...[snip]
> > 
> > > > The config option helps in reducing the extra code 
> being built into
> > > > the "xload" configurations - where the size matters.
> > > >
> > > > Instead of making this change, I suggest you add this in 
> > > the defconfig
> > > > for pandaboard:
> > > > CONFIG_OMAP_GPMC=y
> > > >
> > > > It is much smaller change.
> 
> Yes, the change is smaller, but we show an option to the user which
> he better not changes. It's better to just not ask questions which
> have only one reasonable answer.
> 
> > > GPMC is common for omap platform so I don't see a benefit 
> to add user
> > > possibility to disable it and
> > > then make his board un-bootable. Solution was proposed by Sascha :
> > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/u-boot-v2/msg05897.html
> > 
> > I missed this discussion, but if in the early boot stages we aren't
> > concerned about the devices on GPMC, then we shouldn't be 
> initializing it.
> 
> I generally agree, but we are talking about a few writel here, it
> shouldn't add more than a few bytes to the binary.
> 
> > 
> > I don't have code in front of me, so can't say whether this is the
> > case for xload configurations today - but I am assuming this was the
> > original intent of having this option.
> > 
> > On OMAP3EVM, GPMC needs to be configured only if NAND and 
> Ethernet are
> > used. Else, the init can easily be skipped.
> > 
> > In patch 2/2 you mentioned about the kernel crash.
> > Can you share the crash log?
> > (or point me to a post which already has it)
> 
> The right(tm) fix is probably to fix this in the Kernel to not depend
> on the bootloader.

Agree.

> 
> Sascha
> 
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