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From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] documentation/iommu: update description of ARM System MMU binding
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:21:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140228162114.GA30996@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOZdJXUfAygZqw9s5qOECLjyo=B0VaD29iesbWzDeMbbyVTgqg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 04:17:43PM +0000, Timur Tabi wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote:
> >
> > +- calxeda,smmu-secure-config-access : Enable proper handling of buggy
> > +                  implementations that always use secure access to
> > +                  SMMU configuration registers. In this case non-secure
> > +                 aliases of secure registers have to be used during
> > +                 SMMU configuration.
> 
> I'm confused.  Why does this property have a "calxeda" prefix?  How is
> it a Calxeda-specific property?

Because they wired up their SMMU backwards. It's basically an
implementation-specific erratum workaround.

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-28 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-21 17:16 [PATCH 0/5] iommu/arm-smmu: updates for 3.15 Will Deacon
2014-02-21 17:16 ` [PATCH 1/5] iommu/arm-smmu: set MAX_MASTER_STREAMIDS to MAX_PHANDLE_ARGS Will Deacon
2014-02-21 17:16 ` [PATCH 2/5] iommu/arm-smmu: support buggy implementations with secure cfg accesses Will Deacon
2014-02-21 17:16 ` [PATCH 3/5] documentation/iommu: update description of ARM System MMU binding Will Deacon
2014-02-21 18:57   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2014-02-28 16:17   ` Timur Tabi
2014-02-28 16:21     ` Will Deacon [this message]
2014-02-28 17:07       ` Timur Tabi
2014-03-04 10:08         ` Will Deacon
2014-03-04 13:20           ` Timur Tabi
2014-02-21 17:16 ` [PATCH 4/5] iommu/arm-smmu: clean up use of `flags' in page table handling code Will Deacon
2014-02-21 17:16 ` [PATCH 5/5] iommu/arm-smmu: provide option to dsb macro when publishing tables Will Deacon

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