[GIT PULL] ARM: mvebu: soc changes for v3.13 (round 2)
Kevin Hilman
khilman at linaro.org
Thu Oct 17 18:20:57 EDT 2013
Jason Cooper <jason at lakedaemon.net> writes:
> Guys,
>
> The only thing exciting here is the workaround for the mv643xx_eth bug.
> Whenever you shut off it's clock (and folks have good reason to do
> this), it loses it's mac address. In the happy, ideal boot-from-DT
> world, this isn't a problem, since the bootloader will set
> local-mac-address in the DT. However, we aren't in that world (yet).
>
> We've been tossing around different solutions to the problem over the
> past year or so, and this one seems a) the least painful, and b) most in
> line with what the future will hold. eg, the driver (on reload or
> resume) will need to read the mac address from the DT, regardless of how
> the mac address got there.
>
> thx,
>
> Jason.
>
> The following changes since commit e1cb367de27ca5c186b0f120c3c10a4a0e8edd2e:
>
> ARM: kirkwood: Add standby support (2013-10-08 15:41:52 +0000)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
> git://git.infradead.org/linux-mvebu.git tags/soc-3.13-2
>
> for you to fetch changes up to d7f5baeedbdb48d4f5bb2b4f6f56f32b7f2f7aff:
>
> Documentation: arm/Marvell: clarify Armada SoCs that match 78xx0 pattern (2013-10-08 17:27:59 +0000)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> mvebu soc changes for v3.13 (round 2)
>
> - kirkwood
> - remove mbus init, pcie clk init
> - retain MAC addr for DT ethernet (work around broken IP)
> - docs: clarify Armada SoCs
Pulled into next/soc.
This had a minor conflict in board-dt.c with Sebastian's clk-of-init
branch that's part of next/cleanup. Please double check my conflict
resolution (currently in our to-build branch, not yet pushed to for-next)
Thanks,
Kevin
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