[U-Boot] ls1021atwr reset issue (was [ANN] U-Boot v2015.10-rc4 released)

[Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>]

On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 04:09:46PM -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Sinan Akman <sinan@writeme.com> wrote:
> >   I took a further look at this. I believe this won't work as readw
> > will now return the data in the wrong endianness. I think Wolfgang
> > also already pointed out at this. We would need to use the macro with
> > correct endianness for different platforms (ls1021atwr would need
> > big endian) and control this based on the watchdog endian setting in dts.
> 
> The imx platforms do not use dts in U-boot yet.
> 
> >
> >   However, there seems to be other problems here. The original
> > fix was intending to preserve the current set bits in wcr and
> > enable DTE. But in the case of ls1021atwr, the watcdog is not
> > initialized and out of reset we have SRS bit is set. This would
> > disable wdog_rst and prevent reset from working. Before the
> > fix it was actually the accidental setting of SRS to zero made
> > the reset working because a writew(WCR_WDE, &wdog->wcr)
> > would clear that bit, setting WDE alone would not generate wdog_rst.
> >
> >   So I believe a proper fix would have the following steps :
> >   - move watchdog driver to DM so that we can make use of endian type
> >   - use macros with the endian type for accessing the registers
> >   - enable hw_watchdog for the board so that it gets initialized to
> > a known value
> >   - reset SRS to enable generation of wdog_rst, this will reset immediately
> > with 0x00 default WT value.
> >   - or program the timeout and enable WDE so the board
> > resets after a longer timeout value if desired
> >
> >   Does this make sense to everyone ?
> 
> Looks good. 2015.10 release is only a few days away: do you think you
> could implement your proposal for the upcoming release?

That seems rather large.  Is there something we can revert today so
that:
a) All boards in v2015.07 continue to work in v2015.10 as well as before
b) Any new boards are not introduced in a totally broken state?

-- 
Tom
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