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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Daniel Palmer <daniel@0x0f.com>
Cc: "Bert Vermeulen" <bert@biot.com>,
	"Russell King" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Linus Walleij" <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Geert Uytterhoeven" <geert+renesas@glider.be>,
	"Anshuman Khandual" <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
	"Marc Zyngier" <maz@kernel.org>,
	"Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	"John Crispin" <john@phrozen.org>,
	"Ard Biesheuvel" <ardb@kernel.org>,
	"YiFei Zhu" <yifeifz2@illinois.edu>,
	"Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
	"Mike Rapoport" <rppt@kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	DTML <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] ARM: Add basic support for Airoha EN7523 SoC
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 13:51:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a21N8khjyV-f=p28ZogoakhLTrkoPBd6PeXrigba=7-TQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFr9PXmCKPfdHnHU7=ALh=j2SDf71ibd8kEnLTK6aPN1vmQVdg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 12:48 PM Daniel Palmer <daniel@0x0f.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Sept 2021 at 19:30, Bert Vermeulen <bert@biot.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
> >
> > EN7523 is an armv7 based silicon used inside broadband access type devices
> > such as xPON and xDSL. It shares various silicon blocks with MediaTek
> > silicon such as the MT7622.
>
> This is a Cortex A53 isn't it? So it's ARMv8. I thought the issue is
> that it's actually a 64bit system but you only have a 32bit
> bootloader, firmware etc?
>
> Off-topic but related:  Another MediaTek spin off, SigmaStar, seems to
> have done exactly the same thing. Cortex A53 chip running as a 32bit
> system to avoid having to fix their software. I'm interested to see if
> this makes it into arm or arm64. :)

Maybe it's best to just add them to both at the same time? The boot
loader situation might take a bit to work out, but in theory this should
be fixable.

You can generally include .dtsi files from one in the other, as you can
see from e.g. arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2837-rpi-3-b.dts.

For new files, I think I would prefer having the .dts files in arm64 and
including them from arch/arm/ rather than the other way round, but
others may come up with a good reason to keep doing the reverse.
This would help encourage the thought that running a 64-bit
kernel is the better setup, rather than propagate the 32-bit kernel
nonsense on 64-bit machines.

       Arnd

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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Daniel Palmer <daniel@0x0f.com>
Cc: "Bert Vermeulen" <bert@biot.com>,
	"Russell King" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Linus Walleij" <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Geert Uytterhoeven" <geert+renesas@glider.be>,
	"Anshuman Khandual" <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
	"Marc Zyngier" <maz@kernel.org>,
	"Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	"John Crispin" <john@phrozen.org>,
	"Ard Biesheuvel" <ardb@kernel.org>,
	"YiFei Zhu" <yifeifz2@illinois.edu>,
	"Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
	"Mike Rapoport" <rppt@kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	DTML <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] ARM: Add basic support for Airoha EN7523 SoC
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 13:51:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a21N8khjyV-f=p28ZogoakhLTrkoPBd6PeXrigba=7-TQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFr9PXmCKPfdHnHU7=ALh=j2SDf71ibd8kEnLTK6aPN1vmQVdg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 12:48 PM Daniel Palmer <daniel@0x0f.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Sept 2021 at 19:30, Bert Vermeulen <bert@biot.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
> >
> > EN7523 is an armv7 based silicon used inside broadband access type devices
> > such as xPON and xDSL. It shares various silicon blocks with MediaTek
> > silicon such as the MT7622.
>
> This is a Cortex A53 isn't it? So it's ARMv8. I thought the issue is
> that it's actually a 64bit system but you only have a 32bit
> bootloader, firmware etc?
>
> Off-topic but related:  Another MediaTek spin off, SigmaStar, seems to
> have done exactly the same thing. Cortex A53 chip running as a 32bit
> system to avoid having to fix their software. I'm interested to see if
> this makes it into arm or arm64. :)

Maybe it's best to just add them to both at the same time? The boot
loader situation might take a bit to work out, but in theory this should
be fixable.

You can generally include .dtsi files from one in the other, as you can
see from e.g. arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2837-rpi-3-b.dts.

For new files, I think I would prefer having the .dts files in arm64 and
including them from arch/arm/ rather than the other way round, but
others may come up with a good reason to keep doing the reverse.
This would help encourage the thought that running a 64-bit
kernel is the better setup, rather than propagate the 32-bit kernel
nonsense on 64-bit machines.

       Arnd

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-07 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-07 10:27 [PATCH v2 0/5] Add support for Airoha EN7523 SoC Bert Vermeulen
2021-09-07 10:27 ` Bert Vermeulen
2021-09-07 10:27 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] dt-bindings: Add vendor prefix for Airoha Bert Vermeulen
2021-09-07 10:27   ` Bert Vermeulen
2021-09-07 11:13   ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2021-09-07 11:13     ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2021-09-07 10:27 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] dt-bindings: arm: airoha: Add binding for EN7523 SoC and EVB Bert Vermeulen
2021-09-07 10:27   ` Bert Vermeulen
2021-09-07 10:27 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] ARM: dts: Add basic support for Airoha EN7523 Bert Vermeulen
2021-09-07 10:27   ` Bert Vermeulen
2021-09-07 10:27 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] ARM: Add basic support for Airoha EN7523 SoC Bert Vermeulen
2021-09-07 10:27   ` Bert Vermeulen
2021-09-07 10:48   ` Daniel Palmer
2021-09-07 10:48     ` Daniel Palmer
2021-09-07 11:51     ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2021-09-07 11:51       ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-09-07 12:27       ` Daniel Palmer
2021-09-07 12:27         ` Daniel Palmer
2021-09-07 14:11         ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-09-07 14:11           ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-09-07 14:32           ` Daniel Palmer
2021-09-07 14:32             ` Daniel Palmer
2021-09-07 15:22             ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-09-07 15:22               ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-09-07 10:27 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Add " Bert Vermeulen
2021-09-07 10:27   ` Bert Vermeulen
2021-09-07 10:39   ` Dmitry Osipenko
2021-09-07 10:39     ` Dmitry Osipenko
2021-09-07 10:41     ` Bert Vermeulen
2021-09-07 10:41       ` Bert Vermeulen
2021-09-07 11:03       ` Dmitry Osipenko
2021-09-07 11:03         ` Dmitry Osipenko

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