[PATCH v2 05/15] watchdog: orion: Make RSTOUT register a separate resource

Ezequiel Garcia ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com
Wed Jan 22 13:29:15 EST 2014


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:14:09AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 03:01:01PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 01:21:36PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> > > > I don't see a good way out that would preserve backwards compatibility,
> > > > other than hardcoding the physical address in the driver, which seems
> > > > just as bad as breaking compatibility. That said, it is always the
> > > > same constant (0xf1000000 + 0x20000 + 0x0108) on Dove, Kirkwood and
> > > > Orion5x (not on mv78xx0, but that doesn't use the wdt), so hardcoding
> > > > a fallback would technically work, but we should print a fat warning at
> > > > boot time if we actually fall back to that.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Yes, I was thinking just about this. Namely:
> > > 
> > [..]
> > 
> > How about something like this?
> 
> I liked Arnd's idea to use an offset from the first register. With the
> mbus driver we can now actually change the 0xF1.. prefix via the DT.
> 

Good idea. Maybe extracting the base address from the timer control
register: wdt_reg & 0xff000000 ?
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Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
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