[U-Boot] [PATCH v8 4/7] arm: socfpga: Enable FPGA driver on SPL

Marek Vasut
2017-06-07T12:31:14Z

On 06/07/2017 01:26 PM, Chee, Tien Fong wrote:
> On Rab, 2017-06-07 at 16:04 +0800, Chee, Tien Fong wrote:
>> On Rab, 2017-06-07 at 08:36 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
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>>> On 06/07/2017 05:06 AM, Chee, Tien Fong wrote:
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>>>> On Sel, 2017-06-06 at 11:50 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
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>>>>> On 06/06/2017 11:46 AM, Chee, Tien Fong wrote:
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>>>>>> On Sel, 2017-06-06 at 11:41 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
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>>>>>>> On 06/06/2017 11:36 AM, Chee, Tien Fong wrote:
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>>>>>>>> On Sel, 2017-06-06 at 10:35 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
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>>>>>>>>> On 06/06/2017 10:19 AM, Chee, Tien Fong wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>> On Sel, 2017-06-06 at 10:03 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>> On 06/06/2017 08:35 AM, tien.fong.chee at intel.com
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>>>>>>>>>>>> From: Tien Fong Chee <tien.fong.chee@intel.com>
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>>>>>>>>>>>> This patch is for enabling FPGA driver support on
>>>>>>>>>>>> SPL
>>>>>>>>>>> Why would we want that on Gen5 ? I believe this is
>>>>>>>>>>> only
>>>>>>>>>>> needed on
>>>>>>>>>>> Gen10.
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>>>>>>>>>> I already moved the fpga_manager driver into
>>>>>>>>>> drivers/fpga/
>>>>>>>>>> on
>>>>>>>>>> patch
>>>>>>>>>> 6,
>>>>>>>>>> and fpga_manager drivers are required on SPL.
>>>>>>>>>> Actually
>>>>>>>>>> fpga_manager
>>>>>>>>>> driver should be part of the drivers/fpga.
>>>>>>>>> I think I miss some fundamental piece of information .
>>>>>>>>> Why
>>>>>>>>> would
>>>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>>>> need
>>>>>>>>> anything from the FPGA framework in SPL on Gen5 ? It is
>>>>>>>>> not
>>>>>>>>> needed
>>>>>>>>> thus
>>>>>>>>> far. Is it because you shuffled some of the code around
>>>>>>>>> or
>>>>>>>>> what ?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Because we need to know some status and mode type from
>>>>>>>> FPGA
>>>>>>>> even we
>>>>>>>> did
>>>>>>>> not program FPGA in SPL.
>>>>>>> But we didn't have this option enabled before and
>>>>>>> everything
>>>>>>> worked
>>>>>>> on
>>>>>>> gen5, why do we need it now ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Because i already move them into fpga driver, because those
>>>>>> functions
>>>>>> should be part of fpga driver. So, this moving happen in
>>>>>> patch
>>>>>> 6.
>>>>> I see. Does enabling the FPGA_SPL stuff pull in any of the FPGA
>>>>> framework ? Does the size of the Gen5 SPL change before and
>>>>> after
>>>>> this
>>>>> patchset ? If you did not check, please do.
>>>> Yeah, i confirm FPGA driver is availabled in SPL. A bit change in
>>>> size,
>>>> 1~2K more. I did the test on our devkits also.
>>> OK, so that's not acceptable because we're already very close to
>>> the
>>> size limit of the SPL.
>>>
>> Any safety guideline?
>> I checked the spl.map, we still have 10K left after calculation
>> including bss size.
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> I compiled all Intel fpga related defconfigs, and we have 9K free based
> on total 64K memory size. SO building PFGA driver would contribute
> around 1~2K only to SPL size. Do you have concern with that?

Yes

> If you have concern, i would remove patch 6, keep fpga_manager intact.

Can't you rework things such that they don't add useless code into the
SPL instead ?

>> Thanks.

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut