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From: "Cousson, Benoit" <b-cousson@ti.com>
To: "Balbi, Felipe" <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: "Kanigeri, Hari" <h-kanigeri2@ti.com>,
	Hiroshi Doyu <Hiroshi.DOYU@nokia.com>,
	linux omap <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] OMAP: mailbox: fix rx interrupt disable in omap4
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:55:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CEA8473.3040404@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101122100815.GM2446@legolas.emea.dhcp.ti.com>

On 11/22/2010 11:08 AM, Balbi, Felipe wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 03:50:02PM +0100, Cousson, Benoit wrote:
>> Most of the time, we do not want to use the IP revision because it is
>> un-accurate and does not reflect the change we'd like to track.
>> For example some time a minor change in the RTL that will not impact
>> the SW at all might trigger a change in the IP revision, whereas on
>> the other hand a major bug fix that will impact the SW is not capture
>> in the IP revision... yeah, that's bad, but this can happen.
>>
>> That's why we are relying on a rev field in the hwmod.
>
> But then, what's inside this rev field ? Is it some internal revision of
> hwmod or do you read from the hw ?

So far we are using a artificial SW IP revision that reflect the 
difference we'd like to highlight v1, v2.

Benoit



WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: b-cousson@ti.com (Cousson, Benoit)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/5] OMAP: mailbox: fix rx interrupt disable in omap4
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:55:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CEA8473.3040404@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101122100815.GM2446@legolas.emea.dhcp.ti.com>

On 11/22/2010 11:08 AM, Balbi, Felipe wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 03:50:02PM +0100, Cousson, Benoit wrote:
>> Most of the time, we do not want to use the IP revision because it is
>> un-accurate and does not reflect the change we'd like to track.
>> For example some time a minor change in the RTL that will not impact
>> the SW at all might trigger a change in the IP revision, whereas on
>> the other hand a major bug fix that will impact the SW is not capture
>> in the IP revision... yeah, that's bad, but this can happen.
>>
>> That's why we are relying on a rev field in the hwmod.
>
> But then, what's inside this rev field ? Is it some internal revision of
> hwmod or do you read from the hw ?

So far we are using a artificial SW IP revision that reflect the 
difference we'd like to highlight v1, v2.

Benoit

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-22 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-18 19:15 [PATCH v3 0/5] OMAP: mailbox: enhancements and fixes Hari Kanigeri
2010-11-18 19:15 ` Hari Kanigeri
2010-11-18 19:15 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] OMAP: mailbox: change full flag per mailbox queue instead of global Hari Kanigeri
2010-11-18 19:15   ` Hari Kanigeri
2010-11-18 23:22   ` Cousson, Benoit
2010-11-18 23:22     ` Cousson, Benoit
2010-11-18 19:15 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] OMAP: mailbox: fix rx interrupt disable in omap4 Hari Kanigeri
2010-11-18 19:15   ` Hari Kanigeri
2010-11-18 23:28   ` Cousson, Benoit
2010-11-18 23:28     ` Cousson, Benoit
2010-11-19  0:07     ` Kanigeri, Hari
2010-11-19  0:07       ` Kanigeri, Hari
2010-11-19  8:32       ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-19  8:32         ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-19 14:22         ` Kanigeri, Hari
2010-11-19 14:22           ` Kanigeri, Hari
2010-11-19 14:50           ` Cousson, Benoit
2010-11-19 14:50             ` Cousson, Benoit
2010-11-22 10:08             ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-22 10:08               ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-22 11:46               ` Kanigeri, Hari
2010-11-22 11:46                 ` Kanigeri, Hari
2010-11-22 11:51                 ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-22 11:51                   ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-22 11:58                   ` Kanigeri, Hari
2010-11-22 11:58                     ` Kanigeri, Hari
2010-11-22 14:57                   ` Cousson, Benoit
2010-11-22 14:57                     ` Cousson, Benoit
2010-11-22 14:55               ` Cousson, Benoit [this message]
2010-11-22 14:55                 ` Cousson, Benoit
2010-11-23  8:10                 ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-23  8:10                   ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-19  8:32   ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-19  8:32     ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-18 19:15 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] OMAP: mailbox: fix checkpatch warnings Hari Kanigeri
2010-11-18 19:15   ` Hari Kanigeri
2010-11-19  8:33   ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-19  8:33     ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-19 11:52     ` Kanigeri, Hari
2010-11-19 11:52       ` Kanigeri, Hari
2010-11-18 19:15 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] OMAP: mailbox: send message in process context Hari Kanigeri
2010-11-18 19:15   ` Hari Kanigeri
2010-11-19  8:34   ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-19  8:34     ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-18 19:15 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] OMAP: mailbox: add notification support for multiple readers Hari Kanigeri
2010-11-18 19:15   ` Hari Kanigeri
2010-11-19  8:50   ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-19  8:50     ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-19 11:50     ` Kanigeri, Hari
2010-11-19 11:50       ` Kanigeri, Hari
2010-11-19 12:09       ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-19 12:09         ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-19 12:29         ` Kanigeri, Hari
2010-11-19 12:29           ` Kanigeri, Hari
2010-11-19 12:53           ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-19 12:53             ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-19 13:57             ` Kanigeri, Hari
2010-11-19 13:57               ` Kanigeri, Hari
2010-11-19 14:25               ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-19 14:25                 ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-19 14:44                 ` Kanigeri, Hari
2010-11-19 14:44                   ` Kanigeri, Hari
2010-11-19 23:07                   ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-19 23:07                     ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-20  4:01                     ` Kanigeri, Hari
2010-11-20  4:01                       ` Kanigeri, Hari
2010-11-20 11:31                       ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-20 11:31                         ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-20 13:26                         ` Kanigeri, Hari
2010-11-20 13:26                           ` Kanigeri, Hari

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