[PATCH v3 0/3] SoCFPGA: L3 NIC driver

[Mark Rutland]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 04:30:58PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sunday 30 November 2014 21:53:31 Robert Schwebel wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 12:51:58PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > > This series adds support for the SoCFPGA L3 NIC. As the memory range has
> > > > a lot of holes, where you can not read from, syscon can not be used for
> > > > this IP core. Instead add a new driver, that knows about all the allowed
> > > > ranges and guards the access via regmap.
> > > 
> > > What is an L3 NIC?
> > 
> > Fron the SoCFPGA manual:
> > 
> > "
> > The hard processor system (HPS) level 3 (L3) interconnect and level 4
> > (L4) peripheral buses are implemented with the ARM CoreLinkTM Network
> > Interconnect (NIC-301). The NIC-301 provides a foundation for a
> > high-performance HPS interconnect based on the ARM Advanced
> > Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) Advanced eXtensible Interface
> > (AXI), Advanced High-Performance Bus (AHBTM), and Advanced Peripheral
> > Bus (APBTM) protocols. The L3 interconnect implements a multilayer,
> > nonblocking architecture that supports multiple simultaneous
> > transactions between masters and slaves, including the Cortex-A9
> > microprocessor unit (MPU) subsystem. The interconnect provides five
> > independent L4 buses to access control and status registers (CSRs) of
> > peripherals, managers, and memory controllers Related Information
> > http://infocenter.arm.com/ Additional information is available in the
> > AMBA Network Interconnect (NIC-301) Technical Reference Manual, revision
> > r2p3, which you can download from the ARM info center website.
> 
> Please put something like this in the introductory mail and later
> into the pull request then. If the l3-nic is an ARM nic-301, shouldn't
> the compatible string be "arm,nic-301"?

We should also treat the device as a bus, with it's child devices as
nodes underneath it (rather than a block on the side referred to by
phandle).

Mark.