[PATCH][WAS:bcmai, axi] bcma: add Broadcom specific AMBA bus driver

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Sat May 7 12:49:30 EDT 2011


2011/5/7 Arend van Spriel <arend at broadcom.com>:
> On 05/07/2011 03:55 PM, Michael Büsch wrote:
>>
>>> Arnd: did you have a look at defines at all?
>>>
>>> Most of the defines have values in range 0x800 → 0x837. Converting
>>> this to array means loosing 0x800 u16 entries. We can not use 0x800
>>> offset, because there are also some defined between 0x000 and 0x800:
>>> #define BCMA_CORE_OOB_ROUTER           0x367   /* Out of band */
>>> #define BCMA_CORE_INVALID              0x700
>
> Please be aware that the core identifier itself is not unique (in the
> current list they are). In the scan the BCMA_CORE_OOB_ROUTER will always
> show BCMA_MANUF_ARM (did not look up the proper manufacturer define but you
> get the idea, i hope).

Unfortunately, I don't. Could you explain this? How core identified
can be not unique? Can 0x800 mean ChipCommon but also SuperPCIeX?

-- 
Rafał



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