Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] arm64, thunder: Enable Cavium Thunder SoC Family

Robert Richter
2014-09-23T10:41:28Z

On 12.09.14 19:49:43, Robert Richter wrote:
> From: Robert Richter <rrichter@cavium.com>
>
> This initial patches enable Cavium Thunder SoC Family. The patches add
> devicetree and Kconfig support and then add Thunder to the defconfig.
>
> The Thunder system needs more enablement patches for subsystems and
> devices, this includes network, ahci, gicv3/gicv3-its, pci, smmu, kvm.
> We will send separate patch sets for these. All of them base on this
> initial patches.
>
> I sent a separate patch set independently that introduces support for
> dts vendor subdirs. After both patch sets have been applied I will
> send a patch in addition that moves the dts file into a subdirectory.
>
> I sent another separate patch that sets NR_CPUS to 64 per default.
>
> The first patch introduces dts files without having a Kconfig option
> for the soc (ARCH_THUNDER). However, this is introduced in patch 3 and
> added to defconfig in patch 4 as this is my preferred solution. If
> there is still resistance having an ARCH_THUNDER option, just drop
> them.
>
> Patches are available here:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/linux.git thunder/init

Will,

it would be good if these patches could be applied.

Thanks,

-Robert

>
> v3 changes:
> * removed setting NR_CPUS for Thunder, I sent a separate patch that
> increases this to 64 cpus per default
> * reordered patches, dts files changes are know first using dtb-y
> instead of ARCH_THUNDER option
> * moved soc nodes to thunder-88xx.dtsi
>
> v2 changes:
> * rebased to 3.17
> * placed commas between 32-bit portions of 64 bit addresses
> * removed #address-cells and size-cells in gic node
> * get rid of the clocks node
> * changed to gpl/x11 dual license
> * removed memreserve
> * moved gic to bus node
>
> Radha Mohan Chintakuntla (3):
> arm64, thunder: Add initial dts for Cavium Thunder SoC
> arm64, thunder: Document devicetree bindings for Cavium Thunder SoC
> arm64, thunder: Add Kconfig option for Cavium Thunder SoC Family
>
> Robert Richter (1):
> arm64, defconfig: Enable Cavium Thunder SoC in defconfig
>
> .../devicetree/bindings/arm/cavium-thunder.txt | 10 +
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt | 1 +
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 5 +
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/Makefile | 1 +
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/thunder-88xx.dts | 67 ++++
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/thunder-88xx.dtsi | 401 +++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/arm64/configs/defconfig | 1 +
> 7 files changed, 486 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cavium-thunder.txt
> create mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/thunder-88xx.dts
> create mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/thunder-88xx.dtsi
>
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