[PATCH v2 2/5] ARM: kernel: add device tree init map function
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Fri Nov 9 09:42:59 EST 2012
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 02:34:11PM +0000, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> When booting through a device tree, the kernel cpu logical id map can be
> initialized using device tree data passed by FW or through an embedded blob.
>
> This patch adds a function that parses device tree "cpu" nodes and
> retrieves the corresponding CPUs hardware identifiers (MPIDR).
> It sets the possible cpus and the cpu logical map values according to
> the number of CPUs defined in the device tree and respective properties.
>
> The device tree HW identifiers are considered valid if all CPU nodes contain
> a "reg" property and the DT defines a CPU node that matches the MPIDR[23:0]
> of the boot CPU.
>
> The primary CPU is assigned cpu logical number 0 to keep the current convention
> valid.
>
> Current bindings documentation is included in the patch:
>
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt
>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>
[...]
> +List of possible "compatible" string ids:
> +
> +<arm, arm1020>
> +<arm, arm1020e>
> +<arm, arm1022>
> +<arm, arm1026>
> +<arm, arm720>
> +<arm, arm740>
> +<arm, arm7tdmi>
> +<arm, arm920>
> +<arm, arm922>
> +<arm, arm925>
> +<arm, arm926>
> +<arm, arm940>
> +<arm, arm946>
> +<arm, arm9tdmi>
> +<arm, fa526>
> +<arm, feroceon>
> +<arm, mohawk>
> +<arm, sa110>
> +<arm, sa1100>
> +<arm, xsc3>
> +<arm, xscale>
> +<arm, cortex-a5>
> +<arm, cortex-a7>
> +<arm, cortex-a8>
> +<arm, cortex-a9>
> +<arm, cortex-a15>
> +<arm, arm1136>
> +<arm, arm11-mpcore>
Is this supposed to be an exhaustive list? What about 1156 and 1176? Also,
"arm11mpcore" should probably be used instead of "arm11-mpcore".
Will
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