linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] OMAP: hwmod: add kernel cmdline flag to avoid resetting IP blocks during init

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1107051936250.4217@utopia.booyaka.com>
Date:	Tue, 5 Jul 2011 19:42:13 -0600 (MDT)
From:	Paul Walmsley <paul@...an.com>
To:	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
cc:	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@...ia.com>,
	Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@...com>,
	Benoît Cousson <b-cousson@...com>,
	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] OMAP: hwmod: add kernel cmdline flag to avoid resetting
 IP blocks during init

cc'ing Aaro

On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, Tony Lindgren wrote:

> Also related is the gptimer12 on secure omaps as reported by Aaro.

This problem is actually worse.  In this case it's not just preventing 
reset; we must prevent the kernel from using the device at all. My 
understanding is also that it's the X-Loader or bootloader -- or more 
broadly, secure mode code -- that actually chooses which devices are 
protected in this way.  In other words, we can't make any automatic 
decisions that are based on knowing that a chip is a high-security chip -- 
it will need to be defined by the board file :-(

For this case, we probably need some board file function to tell the hwmod 
code to disregard a device completely, to tell the kernel to pretend that 
the device does not exist.

- Paul
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