Re: [PATCH 08/10] ARM: mvebu: add core support for Armada 39x

[Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard-wi1+55ScJUtKEb57/3fJTNBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>]

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Hi Thomas,

On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 04:57:54PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> This commit adds the core support for Armada 39x, which is quite
> simple:
> 
>  - a new Kconfig option which selects the appropriate clock and
>    pinctrl drivers as well as other common features (GIC, L2 cache,
>    SMP, etc.)
> 
>  - a new DT_MACHINE_START which references the top-level compatible
>    strings supported for the Marvell Armada 39x.
> 
>  - a new SMP enable-method. The mechanism to enable CPUs for Armada
>    39x appears to be the same as Armada 38x. However, we do want to

                                                              ^ not?

>    use marvell,armada-380-smp in the Device Tree, in the case of the
>    discovery of a subtle difference in the future, which would require
>    changing the Device Tree. And the enable-method isn't a compatible
>    string: you can't specify several values and expect a fallback on
>    the second string if the first one isn't supported. Therefore, we
>    simply declare the SMP enable method "marvell,armada-390-smp" as
>    doing the same thing as the "marvell,armada-380-smp" one.
> 

Maxime

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