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From: Josh Cartwright <josh.cartwright@ni.com>
To: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	arm@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	John Linn <john.linn@xilinx.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] zynq: move static peripheral mappings
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:24:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121023212419.GK20593@beefymiracle.amer.corp.natinst.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121023211742.GA14047@elliptictech.com>

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On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 05:17:42PM -0400, Nick Bowler wrote:
> On 2012-10-23 15:53 -0500, Josh Cartwright wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 03:09:23PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > On 10/23/2012 09:50 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > > On Monday 22 October 2012, Josh Cartwright wrote:
> > > >> -#define SCU_PERIPH_PHYS			0xF8F00000
> > > >> -#define SCU_PERIPH_VIRT			SCU_PERIPH_PHYS
> > > >> +#define SCU_PERIPH_PHYS		0xF8F00000
> > > >> +#define SCU_PERIPH_SIZE		SZ_8K
> > > >> +#define SCU_PERIPH_VIRT		(PL310_L2CC_VIRT - SCU_PERIPH_SIZE)
> > > >
> > > > And your patch 3 already obsoletes this mapping.
> > >
> > > Actually, it's probably still needed. The smp platform code typically
> > > reads the number of cores from the SCU and the mapping has to be in
> > > place before ioremap is up. I don't think there is an architected way to
> > > get the number of cores, but it would be nice to avoid this early SCU
> > > access. We could also mandate getting the core count from DT instead.
> > >
> > > Also, the physical address can be read with this on A9's:
> > >
> > >         asm("mrc p15, 4, %0, c15, c0, 0" : "=r" (base));
> > 
> > For the sake of the zynq cleanups, I think it may still make sense to
> > remove the SCU peripheral mappings for now.  By the time we're ready to
> > push in SMP support for zynq, maybe we can tackle the problem of how to
> > solve the SCU mapping problem generically.
> 
> Then the static mapping can be removed if and when the we "solve the SCU
> mapping problem generically".  There's no point in removing it until
> then since it doesn't cause any actual problems, does it?

That's also fine with me as well.  I'm not strongly opinionated, and not
convinced it really matters much.

Thanks,

  Josh

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-23 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-22 21:10 [PATCH v2 0/4] zynq subarch cleanups Josh Cartwright
2012-10-22 21:11 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] ARM: annotate VMALLOC_END definition with _AC Josh Cartwright
2012-10-22 21:12 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] zynq: move static peripheral mappings Josh Cartwright
2012-10-23 14:50   ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-10-23 16:26     ` Josh Cartwright
2012-10-23 17:48       ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-10-23 20:27       ` Nick Bowler
2012-10-23 23:42         ` Josh Cartwright
2012-10-24 20:19           ` Nick Bowler
2012-10-23 20:09     ` Rob Herring
2012-10-23 20:53       ` Josh Cartwright
2012-10-23 21:17         ` Nick Bowler
2012-10-23 21:24           ` Josh Cartwright [this message]
2012-10-22 21:12 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] zynq: use GIC device tree bindings Josh Cartwright
2012-10-22 21:13 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] zynq: remove use of CLKDEV_LOOKUP Josh Cartwright
2012-10-23 14:41 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] zynq subarch cleanups Arnd Bergmann
2012-10-23 20:50   ` Rob Herring

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