[PATCH v3 05/12] ARM: mvebu: Remove the harcoded BootROM window allocation

Jason Gunthorpe jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com
Tue Jun 18 16:10:21 EDT 2013


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 05:02:42PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> > Having the kernel enforce that the DT node is present and at the right
> > location, I think, is helpful for the bootloader folks to ensure they
> > write correct DTs.

> Granted. But then I wonder... why do we bother to put the BootROM in the
> DT window if we're going to check for a fixed address it in any case?

Code re-use in the mbus driver?

Maybe future SOCs in this family will have programmable SMP startup
addresses?

Non-SMP systems don't need to map the boot rom at all?

Jason



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