[PATCH 1/2] ARM: socfpga: Add driver for the L3 interconnect

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On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, Steffen Trumtrar wrote:

> 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.
> 
> This driver specifies also the valid readable and writable ranges of the L3
> interconnect. Other drivers that want to access their GPV registers can do
> so with this driver via socfpga_l3nic_regmap_by_phandle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steffen Trumtrar <s.trumtrar at pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  .../bindings/soc/socfpga/altr,l3-nic.txt           |  15 ++
>  drivers/soc/Kconfig                                |   1 +
>  drivers/soc/Makefile                               |   1 +
>  drivers/soc/socfpga/Kconfig                        |  11 +
>  drivers/soc/socfpga/Makefile                       |   1 +
>  drivers/soc/socfpga/l3nic.c                        | 221 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/soc/socfpga/gpv.h                          |  63 ++++++
>  include/soc/socfpga/l3regs.h                       | 194 ++++++++++++++++++
>  8 files changed, 507 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/socfpga/altr,l3-nic.txt
>  create mode 100644 drivers/soc/socfpga/Kconfig
>  create mode 100644 drivers/soc/socfpga/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 drivers/soc/socfpga/l3nic.c
>  create mode 100644 include/soc/socfpga/gpv.h
>  create mode 100644 include/soc/socfpga/l3regs.h
> 

Hi Steffen,

This looks really nice and useful.

I tried it out with my bridge driver and at least with my superficial
testing it looked good.

> +
> +int socfpga_l3nic_regmap_by_phandle(struct device_node *np,
> +				    struct regmap **regmap,
> +				    const char *name)
> +{

This could return the regmap or ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) and just
have the np and name parameter, similar to 
syscon_regmap_lookup_by_phandle.

Thanks!

Alan