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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:13:05 +0000
From: Jon Hunter <jgchunter@...il.com>
To: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@...oniou-consulting.com>,
Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
CC: devicetree@...r.kernel.org, Koen Kooi <koen@...inion.thruhere.net>,
Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@...el.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
Matt Porter <matt.porter@...aro.org>,
Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] arm: am33xx: DT quirks for am33xx based beaglebone
variants
On 02/19/2015 06:28 PM, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
> Hi Tony,
>
>> On Feb 19, 2015, at 20:16 , Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com> wrote:
>>
>> * Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@...sulko.com> [150218 07:03]:
>>> Implement DT quirks for the am33xx beaglebone boards.
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/am33xx-dt-quirks.c
>> ...
>>> +
>>> +/*
>>> + * The board IDs for am33xx board are in an I2C EEPROM
>>> + * We are very early in the boot process so we have to
>>> + * read the EEPROM directly without using the I2C layer.
>>> + *
>>> + * Note that we rely on the bootloader setting up the muxes
>>> + * (which is the case for u-boot).
>>> + */
>>> +
>>> +/* I2C Status Register (OMAP_I2C_STAT): */
>>> +#define OMAP_I2C_STAT_XDR (1 << 14) /* TX Buffer draining */
>>> +#define OMAP_I2C_STAT_RDR (1 << 13) /* RX Buffer draining */
>>> +#define OMAP_I2C_STAT_BB (1 << 12) /* Bus busy */
>>> +#define OMAP_I2C_STAT_ROVR (1 << 11) /* Receive overrun */
>>> +#define OMAP_I2C_STAT_XUDF (1 << 10) /* Transmit underflow */
>>> +#define OMAP_I2C_STAT_AAS (1 << 9) /* Address as slave */
>>> +#define OMAP_I2C_STAT_BF (1 << 8) /* Bus Free */
>>> +#define OMAP_I2C_STAT_XRDY (1 << 4) /* Transmit data ready */
>>> +#define OMAP_I2C_STAT_RRDY (1 << 3) /* Receive data ready */
>>> +#define OMAP_I2C_STAT_ARDY (1 << 2) /* Register access ready */
>>> +#define OMAP_I2C_STAT_NACK (1 << 1) /* No ack interrupt enable */
>>> +#define OMAP_I2C_STAT_AL (1 << 0) /* Arbitration lost int ena */
>> ...
>>
>> Uhh I don't like the idea of duplicating the i2c-omap.c driver under
>> arch/arm.. And in general we should initialize things later rather
>> than earlier.
>>
>> What's stopping doing these quirk checks later on time with just
>> a regular device driver, something like drivers/misc/bbone-quirks.c?
>>
>
> We have no choice; we are way early in the boot process, right after
> the device tree unflattening step.
Can you elaborate with an example of why not? Why can't the overlay
happen at a later stage in the kernel boot as Tony suggests?
One thought would be that ideally devices that are dependent on a
particular board variant would be disabled in the base DT blob until you
know what board you are. However, that assumes that they can be
initialised at a later stage in the boot process and may be for some
regulators or other devices this is not possible. I know you mentioned
some time restrictions for some devices, but I still don't see why it
could not happen later.
Jon
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