[PATCH] arm/dt: Add SoC detection macros

[plagnioj@jcrosoft.com (Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD)]

On 11:28 Sat 17 Sep     , Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 01:02:19AM -0700, Allen Martin wrote:
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_TEGRA_2x_SOC
> > +# ifdef SOC_NAME
> > +#  undef MULTI_SOC
> > +#  define MULTI_SOC
> > +# else
> > +#   define SOC_NAME tegra2
> > +# endif
> > +#endif
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_TEGRA_3x_SOC
> > +# ifdef SOC_NAME
> > +#  undef MULTI_SOC
> > +#  define MULTI_SOC
> > +# else
> > +#   define SOC_NAME tegra3
> > +# endif
> > +#endif
> > +
> > +#define soc_is_tegra2()			0
> > +#define soc_is_tegra3()			0
> > +
> > +#if defined(MULTI_SOC)
> > +# if defined(CONFIG_ARCH_TEGRA_2x_SOC)
> > +#  undef soc_is_tegra2
> > +#  define soc_is_tegra2()		is_tegra2()
> > +# endif
> > +# if defined(CONFIG_ARCH_TEGRA_3x_SOC)
> > +#  undef soc_is_tegra3
> > +#  define soc_is_tegra3()		is_tegra3()
> > +# endif
> > +#else /* non-multi, only one architecture is on */
> > +# if defined(CONFIG_ARCH_TEGRA_2x_SOC)
> > +#  undef soc_is_tegra2
> > +#  define soc_is_tegra2()		1
> > +# elif defined(CONFIG_ARCH_TEGRA_3x_SOC)
> > +#  undef soc_is_tegra3
> > +#  define soc_is_tegra3()		1
> > +# endif
> > +#endif
> 
> This is not the way to do this, especially for a file in asm/*.h.  Look
> at the way machine_is_xxx() is dealt with in include/generated/mach-types.h.
> 
> #define MULTI_SOC			0
> #undef SOC_SELECTED
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_TEGRA_2x_SOC
> # ifdef SOC_SELECTED
> #  undef MULTI_SOC
> #  define MULTI_SOC			1
> # else
> #  define SOC_SELECTED
> # endif
> # define soc_is_tegra2()		(!MULTI_SOC || is_tegra2())
> #else
> # define soc_is_tegra2()		0
> #endif
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_TEGRA_3x_SOC
> # ifdef SOC_SELECTED
> #  undef MULTI_SOC
> #  define MULTI_SOC			1
> # else
> #  define SOC_SELECTED
> # endif
> # define soc_is_tegra3()		(!MULTI_SOC || is_tegra3())
> #else
> # define soc_is_tegra3()		0
> #endif
> 
> #undef SOC_SELECTED
> 
> The above is nicely extensible - if other SoCs need to extend this they
> just need to add another outer ifdef..endif section to the file.
> 
> > +
> > +enum soc_version {
> > +	SOC_UNKNOWN = 0,
> > +	TEGRA_T20,
> > +	TEGRA_T30,
> 
> I'd suggest prefixing these with SOC_ to avoid any namespace problems.
> 
> > +};
> > +
> > +void soc_init_version(void);
> > +enum soc_version soc_get_version(void);
> > +
> > +static inline int is_tegra2(void)
> > +{
> > +	return soc_get_version() == TEGRA_T20;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline int is_tegra3(void)
> > +{
> > +	return soc_get_version() == TEGRA_T30;
> > +}
> 
> If we require all SoCs to provide a value in soc_version, then we can use
> exactly the same method as mach-types.h uses - and while at this, please
> get rid of soc_get_version().  It's far cheaper to access the variable
> directly rather than indirect through a function, just like we do with
> __machine_arch_type.  Mark it __read_mostly too.
> 
> One last point to raise here is - and it's quite a fundamental one - do we
> really want this?  If we're making decisions based on the SoC type, that
> suggests to me that the hardware description in DT is incomplete, and
> we're hiding stuff in the kernel behind the SoC type.  That doesn't sound
> particularly appealing given the point of DT is to encode the hardware
> specific information outside the kernel code.
except if a machine can run on 2 soc so detect it will avoid to have 2 Device
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Best Regards,
J.