[PATCH v3 0/2] SoC driver for Broadcom STB DPFE

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Thu Aug 24 17:54:42 PDT 2017


On 08/24/2017 04:36 PM, Markus Mayer wrote:
> From: Markus Mayer <mmayer at broadcom.com>
> 
> This series introduces a driver to interact with the Broadcom STB DDR
> PHY Front End (DPFE), specifically to communicate with the DCPU that is
> part of the DDR PHY and which is running its own firmware.
> 
> The DCPU provides information such as DRAM refresh rate, which can be
> used as indirect indicator for the DRAM temperature (the higher the
> refresh rate, the hotter the RAM).
> 
> The series was previously submitted as HWMON driver[1]. It has been
> removed from that subsystem, because it doesn't provide any standard
> HWMON data due to hardware design properties, and is now implemented as
> SoC driver.
> 
> Changes since v2:
>   - moved driver from drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb to drivers/memory
>   - renamed the driver from dpfe.c to brcmstb_dpfe.c
>   - added le32_to_cpu() in a few places (where be32_to_cpu() calls
>     already existed)
>   - added a little blurb what the le32_to_cpu()/be32_to_cpu() business
>     is all about
> 
> Changes since v1:
>   - binding simplified to use one node with three memory regions
>     instead of three nodes with one region
>   - no longer part of the HWMON subsystem
>   - better error handling and error reporting to userland
>   - uses [readl|writel]_relaxed() directly, since there is no need for
>     wrappers doing endian conversion
>   - re-download firmware upon "resume"
>   - minor changes to improve clarity
> 
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/4/18/640

Applied, thanks Markus! Will get that resubmitted in a short while:

https://github.com/Broadcom/stblinux/commits/drivers/next
-- 
Florian



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