[PATCH v2] ARM: mmp: bring up pxa988 with device tree support

[Chao Xie]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Monday 17 June 2013, Chao Xie wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
>> > On Friday 14 June 2013 17:15:33 Chao Xie wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
>> >
>> >> > I guess that is a problem we have on other platforms as well, we should
>> >> > find a generic solution for that. It would be nice to reserve a page
>> >> > in "fixmap" and have common code map the SCU page into that.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> So you mean that reserve a page in arch/arm/asm/include/fixmap.h?
>> >
>> > Yes.
>> >
>> >> This reserve will depend on the cpu type beacuse only A9 will have SCU part.
>> >
>> > I think A5 and ARM11MPCore as well.
>> >
>> >> I do not know that in fixmap, the #ifdef is acceptable or not.
>> >
>> > Yes, it is. We don't really use fixmap on ARM for anything other than
>> > kmap_atomic at the moment. Please have a look at the powerpc and x86
>> > implementations.
>> >
>> >> For the common code to map the SCU page, where do you suggest to put it?
>> >
>> > arch/arm/kernel/smp_scu.c.
>> >
>> I think smp_scu.c may not be good place to put the mapping for SCU page.
>> As you know that the fix map will make use of the mapping that set up
>> by vector page.
>> It will make use of top_pmd, and some APIs only provided under arch/arm/mm/.
>> For example
>> get_mem_type: for the pgprot for MT_DEVICE
>> set_top_pte:
>> Is that possible to add a file fixmap.c under arch/arm/mm/? It can
>> including all the fix mapping
>> except highmem. So SCU is one of it.
>
> It's up to Russell, and he probably has an idea where this should be
> going.
>
> Russell, do you think using a fixmap page for the SCU makes sense?
> I'm looking for a method to consolidate the various methods of
> doing early mappings of the SCU for device tree based platforms.
> Where do you think that should be implemented?
>
Hi, Russell

What do you think about above suggestion?

Thanks.


>         Arnd