[PATCH v2 0/3] ARM: mvebu: Enable XHCI on the Armada 385 AP

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Mon Jan 19 13:35:07 PST 2015


On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 02:01:11PM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This serie enables the Armada 385 AP XHCI controller.
> 
> Since the controller uses a GPIO-controlled VBUS, we used the
> phy-generic driver, and made the needed additions to the xhci-plat
> driver to retrieve a USB phy.
> 
> Unfortunately, some glitches were also found along the way, mostly
> because of the probe deferring that was introduced by this phy
> retrieval.
> 
> Since the introduction of the Armada 38x support in 3.16, the driver
> was attempting to write into registers while the clock wasn't enabled
> yet. This was working because the bootloader left it enabled, but in
> the case of a deferred probing, the clock would have been disabled by
> the error path of our driver, and this would fail. This should go in
> 3.19, and any stable kernel for 3.16+.
> 
> The two patches remaining are "regular" patches, and are aimed at
> 3.20. The last patch depend on my previous serie to introduce support
> for the the A385 AP board.

Hi Maxime

I assume you want me to take 3/3? Any other route is not simple, since
this file only exists in mvebu/dt and maybe a staging branch of
arm-soc.

What route do you think the other patches will take?

Thanks

	Andrew



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