[PATCH 1/2] coresight: replicator: Add Qualcomm CoreSight Replicator driver

Ivan T. Ivanov ivan.ivanov at linaro.org
Thu Apr 30 00:21:06 PDT 2015


On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 10:28 -0600, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> On 29 April 2015 at 06:19, Ivan T. Ivanov ivanov at linaro.org> wrote:

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> >                 - "arm,coresight-etm4x", "arm,primecell";
> > +               - "qcom,coresight-replicator", "arm,primecell";
> 
> Is there some sort of versioning information we can add like it was
> done for the "coresight-etmXY" bindings?  It makes things a lot
> cleaner when a new (and possibly not backward compatible) version gets
> released.
> 

>From what I can see, it is version 1. I could add it to compatible
string, but suldn't we use amba_id for this reason.

> >         * reg: physical base address and length of the register
> >           set(s) of the component.
> > diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/Kconfig b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/Kconfig
> > index 6b331d4..165b681 100644
> > --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/Kconfig
> > @@ -68,4 +68,13 @@ config CORESIGHT_SOURCE_ETM4X
> >           instructions that a processor is executing. This is primarily useful
> >           for instruction level tracing. Depending on the implemented version
> >           data tracing may also be available.
> > +
> > +config CORESIGHT_QCOM_REPLICATOR
> > +       bool "Qualcomm CoreSight Replicator driver"
> > +       help
> > +         This enables support for CoreSight link and sink driver that are
> > +         responsible for transporting and collecting the trace data
> > +         respectively. Link and sinks are dynamically aggregated with a trace
> > +         entity at run time to form a complete trace path.
> 
> The replicator is only a link entity.  It is only transporting trace
> data information rather than collecting it.  Please review the
> comment.  

True, sorry. copy and paste from CORESIGHT_LINKS_AND_SINKS.

> Also, can this specific version run on both V7 and V8
> architecture.  If not the proper "depends" should be added.
> 

Same driver/device on both architectures.

Will fix rest of the comments and will resend.

Thank you,
Ivan



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