DT vs ARM static mappings

[Pawel Moll]

> > 2. Single DT_MACHINE_START matching (the most generic) "arm,vexpress"
> > and doing (rougly) this in v2m_map_io:
> > 
> > of_scan_flat_dt(v2m_dt_iotable_init, NULL);
> > 
> > v2m_dt_iotable_init(...)
> > {
> > 	if (depth != 0)
> > 		return 0;
> > 	if (of_flat_dt_is_compatible(node, "arm,vexpress-legacy"))
> > 		iotable_init(v2m_io_desc_legacy);
> > 	else (of_flat_dt_is_compatible(node, "arm,vexpress-rs1"))
> > 		iotable_init(v2m_io_desc_rs1);
> > 	else
> > 		panic();
> > }
> > 
> > Neither of them seem particularly appealing... ;-)
> 
> But I think both ways would be acceptable in the end. It's not a lot
> of extra code either way. In the second case, I would probably have
> the legacy case as a special variant of the map_io function and have
> all others be the default instead of falling back to panic though.

Ok, I'll go (roughly) that way.

> > In my case it's sysreg and sysctl. There are two more users of static
> > mappings: timer01 and timer23, but they could at some point do ioremap()
> > on their own (especially with Nico's changes).
> 
> Well, I think with Nico's cahnges, you /can/ actually do ioremap for
> areas that have been mapped through the iotable before kmalloc is up.
> IIRC, omap does this for a number of peripherals.
> 
> It's a bit of a hack, but I think it's much better than taking hardcoded
> addresses.

Yes, I was thinking about that last night. If you think it's acceptable
I'll do this (killing MMIO_P2V on the way ;-)

> With the combination of the points mentioned above, you should be
> able to do:
> 
> - map the entire I/O area in map_io(), depending on the board
> - have an __iomem pointer for the sysreg
> - populate that pointer using of_iomap from the device tree address
>   before you first access it.
> 
> Do you think that would work?

Yes, I suppose so. The last bit (getting the offset from DT) will be a
little ugly, I think, but let's wait till I get some code done.

Cheers!

Paweł