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

[Lior Amsalem]

> From: Arnd Bergmann [mailto:arnd at arndb.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 2:40 PM
> 
> 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?

It's a different microarchitecture, pipeline, but I don't know all the details.

> 
> > > 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?

No, to my knowledge they're not going to be fixed.

> 
> 	Arnd

Regards,
Lior Amsalem