[PATCH 3/3] ARM PJ4B: Add support for errata 4611

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tuesday 04 June 2013 14:34:53 Lior Amsalem wrote:
> > From: Arnd Bergmann [mailto:arnd at arndb.de]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 4:33 PM
> > 
> > On Wednesday 29 May 2013 15:27:31 Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> > > OK I will see what kind of information I can gather and which ones I
> > > can add to the Documentation/arm/Marvell/README file.
> > >
> > > My current understanding is that there are at least 3 kind of CPU:
> > > PJ4, PJ4B and PJ4B-MP and all of them belongs to the Sheeva family.
> > 
> > Ok. So I guess PJ4B adds LPAE support, and PJ4B-MP adds SMP support,
> > right? Do either of them support hypervisor mode?
> 
> It goes like this:
> PJ4B: improved version of PJ4.
> PJ4B-MP: adds LPAE and SMP.
> No support for virtualization on any.

Ah, interesting. So PJ4B is just faster than PJ4 and has no extra
instructions or other features?

> > Regarding the errata: are those needed for production-level chips, or just for
> > prototypes?
> 
> These are production level chips.

Ok, thanks for the information. To clarify, does that mean that
all future PJ4B and PJ4B-MP based chips also need the errata, or
is there is a chance they will be fixed in future revisions?

	Arnd