Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add correct PLL settings for DragonBall VZ.

[Greg Ungerer <gregungerer@westnet.com.au>]

Hi Daniel,

On 04/04/14 13:18, Daniel Palmer wrote:
> Only slightly related to the patch itself;
>
> At the moment you can select to support multiple DragonBall chips in a
> single kernel but I don't think that'll actually work if the PLL
> register values are hardcoded like they are at the moment. So I think
> the kconfig needs to be changed to only allow support for one chip.
> Should I make this change and send a patch?

Sure, that sounds reasonable.


> I doubt there are many people that are attempting to run Linux on
> Palms or extremely rare development boards but it does seem like it's
> possible to detect what chip the kernel is booting on from the chip id
> register. So the kernel could pick the right PLL settings based on the
> chip it's booting on and then the same kernel image could be used for
> all DragonBall based machines.

The mutually exclusive board selection can be changed back if or when
code gets added to do this. No problem there.

Regards
Greg