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From: christophe leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-spi@vger.kernel.org,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	scottwood@freescale.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] spi: fsl-spi: Allow dynamic allocation of CPM1 parameter RAM
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 22:15:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <542F03CF.8010900@c-s.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141003144420.GC24441@sirena.org.uk>


Le 03/10/2014 16:44, Mark Brown a écrit :
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 02:56:09PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>
>> +config CPM1_RELOCSPI
>> +	bool "Dynamic SPI relocation"
>> +	default n
>> +	help
>> +	  On recent MPC8xx (at least MPC866 and MPC885) SPI can be relocated
>> +	  without micropatch. This activates relocation to a dynamically
>> +	  allocated area in the CPM Dual port RAM.
>> +	  When combined with SPI relocation patch (for older MPC8xx) it avoids
>> +	  the "loss" of additional Dual port RAM space just above the patch,
>> +	  which might be needed for example when using the CPM QMC.
> Something like this shouldn't be a compile time option.  Either it
> should be unconditional or it should be triggered in some system
> specific manner (from DT, from knowing about other users or similar).
Can't be unconditional as older versions of mpc8xx (eg MPC860) don't 
support relocation without a micropatch.
I have therefore submitted a v2 based on a DTS compatible property.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-03 20:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-03 12:56 [PATCH 2/2] spi: fsl-spi: Allow dynamic allocation of CPM1 parameter RAM Christophe Leroy
2014-10-03 14:44 ` Mark Brown
2014-10-03 20:15   ` christophe leroy [this message]
2014-10-03 20:24     ` Scott Wood
2014-10-04 10:15       ` christophe leroy
2014-10-07  0:19         ` Scott Wood
2014-10-08 16:46           ` leroy christophe
2014-10-08 18:45             ` Scott Wood

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