[PATCH 6/8] arm: mach-armada: add support for Armada XP board with device tree

Rob Herring robherring2 at gmail.com
Tue May 15 10:53:55 EDT 2012


On 05/15/2012 09:25 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 May 2012, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>> Le Tue, 15 May 2012 14:53:45 +0100,
>> Ben Dooks <ben.dooks at codethink.co.uk> a écrit :
>>
>>> Since the two board support files are identical, except for the names
>>> they print, I'd say this is the job of one file. It can always be
>>> split later.
>>
>> The initial motivation for keeping two files here is that the two SoC
>> have a different number of PCIe memory areas, and those areas are
>> typically mapped in ->map_io(). However:
>>
>>  * Maybe those mappings can be done using a normal ioremap() rather
>>    than in ->map_io(), according to DT informations (but most other ARM
>>    SoC support at the moment seem to do PCI mappings using static
>>    mappings in ->map_io)
> 
> I'm pretty sure we can use ioremap for new PCI implementations now.
> Also, you can scan the device tree in map_io() if necesary, to see which
> PCIe ports are enabled.

For the i/o windows, they should be static because we want a fixed
virtual address across platforms. 0xfef00000 is the planned address.
Memory windows should be ioremap.

Rob



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