[RFC PATCH 0/5] ARM: mv78x00: First step to convert mv78x00 to Device Tree

[Andrew Lunn]

On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 11:39:33PM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This patch set is a first step in order to convert mach-mv78x00 to
> device tree before it joins mach-mvebu.
> 
> I managed to test it on the RD-78X00-mASA board. All the peripherals I
> have tested work as they work before the migration to the device tree:
> - UART
> - Ethernet
> - USB
> - SATA
> 
> My main concern is that the mv78x00 are MP but not SMP
> capable. Currently the same kernel run on the 2 cores and it is in the
> board file that the peripherals are assigned for each CPU. (Actually I
> didn't test this behavior, but the code is written in this way.)
> 
> I don't know how to assign a peripheral to a given CPU with the device
> tree. The only way I have in mind is to have a dts per CPU, but I am
> not sure it is very convenient.
> 
> So for now the code assigns all the peripherals to the CPU.

Hi Gregory

Could you explain what you have in a bit more detail. Are you just
bringing up one CPU and assigning all peripherals to that? Or do all
peripherals get assigned to the first CPU but both are running?

As you say, it looks like you need a DTS subtree per CPU for placing
peripherals. No idea if it will work, but i guess i would try:

       ocp at f1000000@cpu0 {
/include/ "mv78x00-peripherals.dtsi"
       }
       ocp at f1000000@cpu1 {
/include/ "mv78x00-peripherals.dtsi"
       }
 
so you get all the peripherals twice, disabled by default. In the
board-dt.c you can then do something like:


	if (mv78xx0_core_index() == 0) {
	   np = of_find_node_by_name(NULL, "ocp at f1000000@cpu0");
	else
	   np = of_find_node_by_name(NULL, "ocp at f1000000@cpu1");
	
        of_platform_populate(np, kirkwood_dt_match_table, NULL, NULL);

There are a few more details, like the GPIO controller has a different
mask register for CPU1, but that is not supported in the current mvebu
gpio code. However none of the current 3 boards make use of GPIO, let
alone GPIO interrupts.

> I am also concerned by the 2 other boards: the Marvell DB-78x00-BP
> Development Board and the Buffalo WLX (Terastation Duo) NAS. I don't
> have them and so I can't test them if I want to convert them to device
> tree too.

The Buffalo WLX is interesting. The wxl_init() does not differentiate
between CPU0 and CPU1, where as the Marvell reference boards do. So i
suspect only one CPU is running, or its broken.

It might be interesting to ask on the buffalo forums if anybody is
actually using mainline on TS-WLX.

      Andrew