From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomasz Figa Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] ARM: dts: exynos4412-odroidx: enable common hardware blocks Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:08:34 +0200 Message-ID: <53A2E0D2.5010200@gmail.com> References: <1402997133-13827-1-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> <1402997133-13827-3-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-we0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:54204 "EHLO mail-we0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752434AbaFSNI4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2014 09:08:56 -0400 Received: by mail-we0-f174.google.com with SMTP id u57so2315427wes.19 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2014 06:08:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-samsung-soc-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Drake , Marek Szyprowski Cc: linux-samsung-soc , Kukjin Kim , Kamil Debski , Sylwester Nawrocki , Tobias Jakobi On 19.06.2014 14:21, Daniel Drake wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Marek Szyprowski > wrote: >> This patch adds support for common hardware modules available on all >> Exynos4412-based Odroid boards, which already have complete support in >> mainline kernel. This includes secure firmware calls, watchdog, g2d and >> fimc (mem2mem) multimedia accelerators. > > For the secure firmware, this is indeed required for U2/U3, otherwise > the system crashes in weird ways during early boot. If this entry also > makes sense for ODROID-X, I'm surprised it was not there already, does > it boot without it? It probably does, but certain things fail, such as secondary CPU bring-up. > > As for the watchdog, g2d and fimc, is there really any Exynos4412 > configuration where such components are not available? > Sorry if that is a silly question - just wondering why we wouldn't > enable these in exynos4412.dtsi. I believe they should all be enabled at highest possible level, as they don't have any board-specific hardware dependencies. Probably even in exynos4.dtsi for some of them (watchdog likely). Best regards, Tomasz