orion/kirkwood and device tree

[nico@fluxnic.net (Nicolas Pitre)]

On Sun, 6 Nov 2011, Andrew Lunn wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:50:28PM +0100, Michael Walle wrote:
> > i've already ported some marvell devices to DT. spi-orion, orion-wdt, rtc-mv 
> > and mv_cesa. Atm i'm struggling with how to pass kirkwood_mbus_dram_info to 
> > the device drivers (the old method is to pass it through platform_data)
> 
> Hi Michael
> 
> Soon to follow is my patch to cleanup the address mapping of orion
> based platforms. I think this is one step towards solving your
> kirkwood_mbus_dram_info problem. I think the next steps are:
> 
> Rename all the {kirkwood|dove|orion5x|mv78xx0}_mbus_dram_info to
> orion_mbus_dram_info and move this variable into
> arch/arm/plat-orion/addr-map.c.
> 
> Move all the address setup code which is currently in various drives
> into arch/arm/plat-orion/addr-map.c. Remove orion_mbus_dram_info from
> all the platform_data structures.
> 
> Try to consolidate the different device address setup code. A lot
> looks very similar, so it should be possible.
> 

Beware. Moving the DRAM window setup code out of the various drivers is 
not necessarily a good idea.  This setup is different from one 
peripheral to another, and the associated registers are highly 
peripheral specific.


Nicolas