[PATCH 6/7] arm: mmp&dove: modify tauros2_init call

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Tue Jul 31 03:17:07 EDT 2012


On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 03:09:12PM +0800, Chao Xie wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch> wrote:
> > Hi Chao
> >
> > When making changes to Dove, or any other Orion system, please could
> > you CC: the orion maintainers:
> >
> > ARM/Marvell Dove/Kirkwood/MV78xx0/Orion SOC support
> > M:      Jason Cooper <jason at lakedaemon.net>
> > M:      Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>
> > L:      linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
> > S:      Maintained
> > F:      arch/arm/mach-dove/
> > F:      arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/
> > F:      arch/arm/mach-mv78xx0/
> > F:      arch/arm/mach-orion5x/
> > F:      arch/arm/plat-orion/
> >
> > Does this also affect Armada 370 and Armada XP SOC? I've no idea what
> > cache it uses.
> >
> > Thanks
> >         Andrew
> It will impact Armada 370.

Then please keep Gregory Clement <gregory.clement at free-electrons.com>
in the loop as well.

> The patch will make the user has choice to
> enable extra features of tauros2
> I have searched the code, only dove will use tauros2_init, and the
> tauros2 default has its extra features off, so i directly pass 0x0 for
> dove

Can you recommend any benchmark tools, to see if its worth turning on
these features? Sebastian Hesselbarth is doing a lot of work on Dove
at the moment, so might be interested in investigating this.

Thanks
	Andrew



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