linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/8] Basic ARM device tree support

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Message-ID: <20110118195933.13011.56098.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Date:	Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:28:57 -0700
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@...onical.com>,
	John Linn <John.Linn@...inx.com>,
	Lennert Buijtenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/8] Basic ARM device tree support

It's been a while since these patches have been circulated for review.
Much has changed since the last posting and there are no longer any
ugly hacks or workarounds to it working.  From my viewpoint, these
patches are complete and ready to be used.

This patch series allows CONFIG_OF to be enabled on ARM and allows the
kernel to accept a dtb pointer from boot firmware instead of atags.
If a dtb is passed, then the kernel will use the root 'compatible'
property to find a matching machine_desc, and it will use it to obtain
the memory layout, initrd location and kernel parameters string.

Only limited device tree support is enabled here.  It does not perform
any kind of device registration from device tree data.  That support
will be enabled in a later patch set.  Right now those patches depend
on the common struct clk patches that Jeremy is working on, so I'm not
going to post them yet.  Rather, this series is a stable base that
other engineers can use to start working on device tree support for
their platforms.

Tested on Versatile (qemu) and nVidia Tegra Harmony.  Kernel compiles
an boot with CONFIG_OF both on and off, both with and without passing
a device tree blob.

I've published this series to a new branch on my git server:

  git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 devicetree/arm

The way I've managed the devicetree/test branch in the past has made
it hard for other engineers to work with the device tree support, so
I'm changing the way I'm handling it.  I will *not* rebase this new
branch.  My intention is to keep it in essentially 'merge-ready' state
at all times.  ie. I'm only going to put patches into this branch that
I consider complete and are required to enable arm device tree
support.  ie. core dt infrastructure and dt board support.  Device
drivers should be submitted directly to their respective
lists/maintainers.  I'll also be soliciting acks from platform
maintainers before I pick up board support patches into this branch.

Russell:  I'm not expecting you to merge these now, nor am I asking
you to.  I won't do so until I've got a full implementation using the
device tree to register devices on the machine and supporting multiple
machines.  However, would you mind taking a look at these patches and
commenting on the approach?  Particularly the early boot code.
Thanks.

Cheers,
g.


---
The following changes since commit
a25cecce88194b2edf38b8c3b1665e9318eb2d22:

  Merge branch 'next' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze (2011-01-18 08:06:22 -0800)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 devicetree/arm

Grant Likely (7):
      arm/dt: Make __vet_atags also accept a dtb image
      arm/dt: allow bootmem reservation for device tree blob and initrd
      arm/dt: consolidate atags setup into setup_machine_atags
      arm/dt: probe for platforms via the device tree
      arm/dt: Basic versatile devicetree support
      arm/tegra: Fix tegra irq_data conversion
      arm/dt: Basic tegra devicetree support

Jeremy Kerr (1):
      arm/dt: Allow CONFIG_OF on ARM


 arch/arm/Kconfig                       |    7 ++
 arch/arm/include/asm/mach/arch.h       |    2 +
 arch/arm/include/asm/prom.h            |   34 ++++++++++
 arch/arm/include/asm/setup.h           |    4 +
 arch/arm/kernel/Makefile               |    1 
 arch/arm/kernel/devtree.c              |  107 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/arm/kernel/head-common.S          |   19 ++++--
 arch/arm/kernel/head.S                 |    8 +-
 arch/arm/kernel/setup.c                |   78 +++++++++++++----------
 arch/arm/mach-tegra/board-harmony.c    |    6 ++
 arch/arm/mach-tegra/gpio.c             |    4 +
 arch/arm/mach-versatile/versatile_ab.c |    6 ++
 arch/arm/mach-versatile/versatile_pb.c |    6 ++
 arch/arm/mm/init.c                     |   23 +++++++
 14 files changed, 258 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/prom.h
 create mode 100644 arch/arm/kernel/devtree.c

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