[PATCH v4] Add basic address decoding support for Marvell 370/XP

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Tue Sep 11 09:10:00 EDT 2012


On Tuesday 11 September 2012, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Andrew, Jason, Grégory,
> 
> Here is a patch set that introduces basic support for address decoding
> on Armada 370 and Armada XP. The aim of this basic support is
> essentially to be able to configure a window to remap the BootROM,
> which is needed to startup the secondary CPUs for the SMP support.
> 
> As we had discussed already, the address decoding configuration is not
> described in the Device Tree, it is for now hardcoded on a per-SoC
> basis. We might later discuss how to extend this to the Device Tree.
> 
> The patch set is relatively long, as it refactors some existing
> Dove/Kirkwood/MV78xx0/Orion code to use void __iomem pointers instead
> of unsigned long, as per the request of Arnd Bergmann and Olof
> Johansson.

Excellent!

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

Just one small comment for the very last patch:

>  (7) Patch 17 adds the necessary DT code to instantiate the address
>      decoding "controller".
> 

This one seems to lack a device tree binding document.



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