Re: [sodaville] [PATCH 03/11] x86/dtb: Add a device tree for CE4100

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 20:36 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> 
> This also works with the flat tree, right?

Yes, of course. You use similar references in your interrupt-map :-)

> Okay, so we want this for a quirk at a later point in time. Now I
> understand.

More precisely, if something has to depend on a specific
revision/errata/feature, in the future, it would be problematic to have
to modify the device-tree.

The "rule" for compatible is to be a list going from a reasonably
precise description of the specific device to the more generic
programming interface the device implements.

> Would "isa-bridge" be acceptable? So I don't have to add a new bus to
> the probe list for every new SoC.

Just call it 'isa', as for device_type, we shouldn't need it.

The default "probe list" is crap. If you want to have platform devices
instanciated for the ISA devices from the device-tree, I'd rather you
explicitely do it from the architecture code. As Scott said, "isa"
doesn't quite qualify as a "generic" simple bus.

> Yes. of_address_to_resource() will do the right thing in this case. It
> can only be used after unflatten_device_tree() and I need this
> earlier.

This probably means you are doing the unflattening too late...

> Now using unflatten_device_tree() earlier isn't that easy, or is it.
> I defered the ioapic init a little, so it is now called from
> x86_init.mpparse.get_smp_config() so I have alloc_bootmem() working.

You can probably do the unflattening way before alloc_bootmem is
available.

The unflattening does a first pass to scan for the size, so all you need
is a way to get a single contiguous chunk of memory, I'm sure x86 has
ways to provide that sort of thing really early before bootmem is
initialized (what about memblock btw ?).

> So unflatten_device_tree() seems to work here. The ugly part comes
> now:
> early_init_dt_alloc_memory_arch() expects u64 which works with
> phys_to_virt() and the other way around. This isn't really the case
> with
> what __alloc_bootmem(). This looks like phys_map to me. Since the dtb
> code
> simply uses phys_to_virt() it doesn't really matter. So it works and
> I 
> probably can use of_address_to_resource().

Yeah just __pa what alloc_bootmem returns but as I said, it should
probably be unflattened earlier than that.

Peter (CC) should be able to help finding the right spot/API there.

Cheers,
Ben.

> > Cheers,
> > Ben.
> 
> Sebastian
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