[PATCH] ARM: Kirkwood: Fix the internal register ranges translation

Ezequiel Garcia ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com
Tue Jul 16 08:56:02 EDT 2013


Hi Gerlando,

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:37:30AM +0200, Gerlando Falauto wrote:
> 
> apologies in advance for commenting on an already-merged patch.

Sure, no problem.

> 
> On 06/18/2013 05:31 PM, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> > Although the internal register window size is 1 MiB, the previous
> > ranges translation for the internal register space had a size of
> > 0x4000000. This was done to allow the crypto and nand node to access
> > the corresponding 'sram' and 'nand' decoding windows.
> >
> > In order to describe the hardware more accurately, we declare the
> > real 1 MiB internal register space in the ranges, and add a translation
> > entry for the nand node to access the 'nand' window.
> >
> > This commit will make future improvements on the MBus DT binding easier.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia-wi1+55ScJUtKEb57/3fJTNBPR1lH4CV8 at public.gmane.org>
> > ---
> > Tested on Plathome Openblocks A6 board.
> >
> >   arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood.dtsi | 5 +++--
> >   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood.dtsi
> > index 8a1e3bb..910fabc 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood.dtsi
> > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood.dtsi
> > @@ -38,7 +38,8 @@
> >
> >   	ocp at f1000000 {
> >   		compatible = "simple-bus";
> > -		ranges = <0x00000000 0xf1000000 0x4000000
> > +		ranges = <0x00000000 0xf1000000 0x0100000
> > +		          0xf4000000 0xf4000000 0x0000400
> >   		          0xf5000000 0xf5000000 0x0000400>;
> 
> Apart from "consistency" with the following range (0xf5000000) used by 
> the crypto node, is there any reason why you did not do something like 
> this instead (which Valentin suggested, but I will take the blame for):
> 

I'm not sure the reason is "consistency with the crypto node".
There's an MBus window at 0xf4000000 for NAND, and that is what is described
in the snippet above; and this is a better reason.

That said, technically speaking, you can have any translation scheme you want,
as long as it ends up in 0xf4000000.

> -		ranges = <0x00000000 0xf1000000 0x4000000
> +		ranges = <0x00000000 0xf1000000 0x0100000
> +		          0x03000000 0xf4000000 0x0000400
>    		          0xf5000000 0xf5000000 0x0000400>;
> 
> This would keep a consistent addressing within the child device bus, and 

Could you explain how this "keeps a consistent addressing"?
Frankly, I don't understand why you choose 0x3000000 ... am I missing something?

Also, speaking of "device bus" this nand node should be behind a devicebus node.

		ranges = <MBUS_ID(0xf0, 0x01) 0 0 0xf1000000 0x100000   /* internal-regs */
			  MBUS_ID(0x01, 0x2f) 0 0 0xf4000000 0x400>;

		devbus {
			status = "okay";
			ranges = <0 MBUS_ID(0x01, 0x2f) 0 0x400>;

			/* nand */
			nand {
				compatible = "marvell,orion-nand";
				reg = <0 0x400>;
			};
		};

(notice this will allow you to relocate the base address of the NAND windows
easily if it conflicts with your PCIe needs).

> avoid a later incosistency between the "unit-address" and the first 
> "reg" address:
> 
> >   		#address-cells = <1>;
> >   		#size-cells = <1>;
> > @@ -171,7 +172,7 @@
>  >   		nand at 3000000 {
> 		     ^^^^^^^

Oh, this should be fixed. I just missed it, and nobody noticed either.

-- 
Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
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