[GIT PULL v3] Xilinx Zynq changes for v3.15

Michal Simek monstr at monstr.eu
Fri Apr 25 01:52:16 PDT 2014


Hi Arnd,

any response on this one?

Thanks,
Michal

On 03/27/2014 12:41 PM, Michal Simek wrote:
> On 03/27/2014 02:28 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Monday 17 March 2014, Michal Simek wrote:
>>> please pull these changes to your arm-soc tree. This branch is based
>>> on zynq/dt branch.
>>> Based on my discussion with Olof I have removed zynq-ocm driver
>>> from this pull request and we will investigate different solution
>>>
>>> Changes in v3: Remove OCM driver from pull request
>>> Changes in v2: Fix incorrect git repo url
>>
>> I have pulled it into the next/cleanup2 branch now, sorry for the
>> delay. Unfortunately I noticed one more thing I didn't like and
>> did not pull the final patch of the branch, but only the other patches.
> 
> ok. thanks for pulling.
> 
>> The problem I noticed is the soc-bus support: I noticed that you
>> are populating the entire device tree under the soc node, including
>> any top-level devices, and that the "xlnx,zynq-devcfg-1.00.a"
>> node is part of that.
>>
>> I think what you should try instead is to have only the
>> amba bus and its children as part of the soc-bus, but other
>> top-level devices (e.g. board clocks) outside of the soc
>> node. Also, it would make sense to merge the devcfg stuff
>> with the amba node, since it's really what makes up the
>> soc. Does that make sense to you, or do you have reason to
>> believe it won't work?
> 
> No problem to postpone to the next release and discuss it more.
> 
> Currently all devices listed in dts/dtsi are all hard IPs
> inside PS silicon that's why I think they should be the part of SoC.
> (zynq-devcfg is also hard IP present all the time in SoC
> I will use different compatible string in the next version
> xlnx,zynq-devcfg-1.0).
> 
> For devices in PL is situation different because only axi-axi bridge
> is present in PS that's why I think that new bus type should
> be used. Also this bridge provides some resets which can be
> provided through this bus bridge driver.
> 
> Current code do this:
> 
> root at zynq:~# cat /sys/bus/soc/devices/soc0/revision
> 0x0
> root at zynq:~# cat /sys/bus/soc/devices/soc0/soc_id
> 0x7
> root at zynq:~# cat /sys/bus/soc/devices/soc0/family
> Xilinx Zynq
> root at zynq:~# ls /sys/bus/soc/devices/soc0/
> amba.0        f8891000.pmu  power         soc_id        uevent
> amba.1        family        revision      subsystem
> 
> amba.0 is the bus present in zynq-7000.dtsi
> amba.1 is bus I have added myself just locally which is
> axi2axi bridge mentioned above.
> 
> All devices which will be in PL will be connected to this amba.1
> bus.
> 
> Regarding clk driver in slcr node is not listed there.
> 
> root at zynq:~# ls /sys/bus/soc/devices/soc0/amba.0/f8000000.slcr/
> driver/    modalias   power/     subsystem/ uevent
> 
> 
> Then we have also ACP (accelerator coherency port) which is the
> same case as axi2axi bridge. It means it is fixed hardware in SoC
> part and devices can be connect to it
> (It looks like arm-cci bus type).
> 
> I know that others SoC are using soc {} node for adding
> soc IPs but that's not our case at least for now.
> 
> If you think that SOC bus should just contain SoC specific
> things then we can call of_platform_populate without SoC bus
> parent to ensure that these devices are not listed there.
> 
> Please correct me if something doesn't fit.
> 
> Thanks,
> Michal
> 
> 


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