Re: [PATCH v9 03/13] ARM: Add basic support for Airoha EN7523 SoC

[John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>]

On 31.01.22 14:00, Robert Marko wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 1:57 PM Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 31.01.22 11:51, Luka Perkov wrote:
>>> Hello Felix,
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 3:56 PM Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> From: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
>>>>
>>>> EN7523 is an armv8 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.
>>>>
>>>> Add basic support for Airoha EN7523, enough for booting to console.
>>>>
>>>> The UART is basically 8250-compatible, except for the clock selection.
>>>> A clock-frequency value is synthesized to get this to run at 115200 bps.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Bert Vermeulen <bert@biot.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
>>>> ---
>>>> index 000000000000..ea23b5abb478
>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-airoha/airoha.c
>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
>>>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
>>>> +/*
>>>> + * Device Tree support for Airoha SoCs
>>>> + *
>>>> + * Copyright (c) 2022 Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
>>>> + */
>>>> +#include <asm/mach/arch.h>
>>>> +
>>>> +static const char * const airoha_board_dt_compat[] = {
>>>> +       "airoha,en7523",
>>>> +       NULL,
>>>> +};
>>>> +
>>>> +DT_MACHINE_START(MEDIATEK_DT, "Airoha Cortex-A53 (Device Tree)")
>>>
>>> Since this is Cortex-A53 core is there a reason why this is not placed
>>> within arm64 directory?
>>   From what I can tell, it's a stripped-down core that only runs in
>> 32-bit mode.
> 
> Hmm, this is new for me that you could do that to an ARMv8 (A53) core.
> I know that you can run ARMv7 code but not that you can reduce it to
> 32 bit only.
> 
> Regards,
> Robert

the bootrom and vendor bootloader do not support 64bit more.
	John