[PATCH v3 2/3] ARM: socfpga: Add driver for the L3 interconnect

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> The L3 interconnect provides Global Programmer View (GPV) registers for every
> AXI master and slave on the SoC.
> Although this is just a bunch of bits, syscon is not the right approach for
> this IP core.
> The L3 interconnect is configured with a lot of reserved "holes" in its memory
> space. Just mapping this with regmap, what syscon would do, would lead to the
> system completely hanging, if one of those areas would be touched.
> One example for when this might happen is the regmap registers dump in the
> debugfs.

Could syscon be extended to take more than one range? Then, you could
simply list all the ranges in device tree and use syscon...

> diff --git a/drivers/soc/Kconfig b/drivers/soc/Kconfig
> index 76d6bd4da138..11db07da894f 100644
> --- a/drivers/soc/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/soc/Kconfig
> @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
>  menu "SOC (System On Chip) specific Drivers"

SoC is usual spelling.

> @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
> +#
> +# SoCFPGA Soc drivers

SoC.

									Pavel
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