[PATCH 3/5] arm: initial support for Marvell Dove SoCs

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun May 12 13:19:09 EDT 2013


Dear Sebastian Hesselbarth,

On Sun, 12 May 2013 18:51:46 +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:

> > How does the remapping of the registers plays with the debug_ll code in
> > arch/arm/mach-mvebu/include/mach/debug_ll.h, which assumes the UART is
> > at 0xd0012000 ?
> 
> Thomas, currently it does not play with debug_ll. That's why I don't
> remap registers yet. I rather suggest to have a pre-linux boot hook in
> barebox to allow to tweak platform specific things before control is
> handed over to linux kernel.

Ok. I guess we have a choice: either we do the remapping very early,
and we execute everything at 0xf1. Or we do the remapping very late
(right before jumping into Linux), and Barebox lives with 0xd0.

I'm not sure what the best way to proceed.

Best regards,

Thomas
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