[GIT PULL] ARM: mvebu: soc changes for v3.13 (round 2)

Sebastian Hesselbarth sebastian.hesselbarth at gmail.com
Fri Oct 18 07:27:06 EDT 2013


On 10/18/2013 12:20 AM, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> Jason Cooper <jason at lakedaemon.net> writes:
>
>> Guys,
>>
>> The only thing exciting here is the workaround for the mv643xx_eth bug.
>> Whenever you shut off it's clock (and folks have good reason to do
>> this), it loses it's mac address.  In the happy, ideal boot-from-DT
>> world, this isn't a problem, since the bootloader will set
>> local-mac-address in the DT.  However, we aren't in that world (yet).
>>
>> We've been tossing around different solutions to the problem over the
>> past year or so, and this one seems a) the least painful, and b) most in
>> line with what the future will hold.  eg, the driver (on reload or
>> resume) will need to read the mac address from the DT, regardless of how
>> the mac address got there.
>>
>> thx,
>>
>> Jason.
>>
>> The following changes since commit e1cb367de27ca5c186b0f120c3c10a4a0e8edd2e:
>>
>>    ARM: kirkwood: Add standby support (2013-10-08 15:41:52 +0000)
>>
>> are available in the git repository at:
>>
>>    git://git.infradead.org/linux-mvebu.git tags/soc-3.13-2
>>
>> for you to fetch changes up to d7f5baeedbdb48d4f5bb2b4f6f56f32b7f2f7aff:
>>
>>    Documentation: arm/Marvell: clarify Armada SoCs that match 78xx0 pattern (2013-10-08 17:27:59 +0000)
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> mvebu soc changes for v3.13 (round 2)
>>
>>   - kirkwood
>>      - remove mbus init, pcie clk init
>>      - retain MAC addr for DT ethernet (work around broken IP)
>>      - docs: clarify Armada SoCs
>
> Pulled into next/soc.
>
> This had a minor conflict in board-dt.c with Sebastian's clk-of-init
> branch that's part of next/cleanup.  Please double check my conflict
> resolution (currently in our to-build branch, not yet pushed to for-next)

Resolution looks sane to me.

While looking at it, I realized that we forgot to remove now obsolete
kirkwood_legacy_clk_init. I shove a patch to Jason soon, if it makes
it into v3.13 great, if not, it will not break anything and can wait
for v3.14.

Sebastian




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