[PATCHv3 1/4] ARM: tegra: Add AHB driver

Hiroshi Doyu hdoyu at nvidia.com
Wed Apr 25 09:01:28 EDT 2012


From: Felipe Balbi <balbi at ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 1/4] ARM: tegra: Add AHB driver
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:25:20 +0200
Message-ID: <20120425112519.GB3564 at arwen.pp.htv.fi>

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> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 02:07:36PM +0300, Hiroshi DOYU wrote:
> > The AHB Bus conforms to the AMBA Specification (Rev 2.0) Advanced
> > High-performance Bus (AHB) architecture.
> >
> > The AHB Arbiter controls AHB bus master arbitration. This effectively
> > forms a second level of arbitration for access to the memory
> > controller through the AHB Slave Memory device. The AHB pre-fetch
> > logic can be configured to enhance performance for devices doing
> > sequential access. Each AHB master is assigned to either the high or
> > low priority bin. Both Tegra20/30 have this AHB bus.
> >
> > Some of configuration param could be passed from DT too.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Hiroshi DOYU <hdoyu at nvidia.com>
> > Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi at ti.com>
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> > ---
> > v4:
> > Fixed the comments from Felipe/Russell.
> > This is now located under drivers/platform/arm.
> > v3:
> > Use platform_device to get info from dt dynamically.(Felipe/Arnd)
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Hiroshi DOYU <hdoyu at nvidia.com>
> 
> Just one thing, you seem to have missed Russell's comment about this
> driver being generic. You still add a TEGRA_AHB driver,

For generalization, there seems to be many parts in this driver
depending on SoC implementation, and I'm not so sure how much S/W
compatibility can be kept from H/W spec. Is there any other similar
SoC AHB driver in kernel?

> also, you don't need <mach/iomap.h>. Apart from those, you can add:

Ok, I'll fix and add your Reviewed-by:. Thank you for your review.



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