[PATCH 10/13] ARM: mvebu: add buffer manager nodes to armada-38x.dtsi
Sergei Shtylyov
sergei.shtylyov at cogentembedded.com
Sun Nov 22 01:41:34 PST 2015
Hello.
On 11/22/2015 10:53 AM, Marcin Wojtas wrote:
> Armada 38x network controller supports hardware buffer management (BM).
> Since it is now enabled in mvneta driver, appropriate nodes can be added
> to armada-38x.dtsi - for the actual common BM unit (bm at c8000) and its
> internal SRAM (bm-bppi), which is used for indirect access to buffer
> pointer ring residing in DRAM.
>
> Pools - ports mapping, bm-bppi entry in 'soc' node's ranges and optional
> parameters are supposed to be set in board files.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-38x.dtsi | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-38x.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-38x.dtsi
> index b7868b2..b9f4ce2 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-38x.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-38x.dtsi
> @@ -539,6 +539,14 @@
> status = "disabled";
> };
>
> + bm: bm at c8000 {
The ePAPR standard tells us to give generic names to the device nodes,
hence this should be named "buffer-manager" (?).
[...]
> @@ -617,6 +625,16 @@
> #size-cells = <1>;
> ranges = <0 MBUS_ID(0x09, 0x15) 0 0x800>;
> };
> +
> + bm_bppi: bm-bppi {
And this one "memory" (?).
[...]
MBR, Sergei
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