[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] ARM: am335x: Add support for chiliSOM

[Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 05:27:50PM +0100, Marcin Niestroj wrote:
> 
> 
> On 23.01.2017 18:07, Tom Rini wrote:
> >On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 05:27:09PM +0100, Marcin Niestroj wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>Thanks for review! See my comment below.
> >>
> >>On 23.01.2017 16:56, Tom Rini wrote:
> >>>On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 02:39:15PM +0100, Marcin Niestroj wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>chiliSOM is a System On Module (http://http://grinn-global.com/chilisom/).
> >>>>It can't exists on its own, but will be used as part of other boards.
> >>>>
> >>>>Hardware specification:
> >>>>* TI AM335x processor
> >>>>* 128M, 256M or 512M DDR3 memory
> >>>>* up to 256M NAND
> >>>>
> >>>>Here we treat SOM similar to SOC, so we place it inside arch/arm/mach-*
> >>>>directory and make it possible to reuse initialization code (i.e. DDR,
> >>>>NAND init) for all boards that use it. This approach is similar as for
> >>>>liteSOM module.
> >>>>
> >>>>Signed-off-by: Marcin Niestroj <m.niestroj@grinn-global.com>
> >>>>---
> >>>>arch/arm/Kconfig                               |   2 +
> >>>>arch/arm/Makefile                              |   1 +
> >>>>arch/arm/mach-chilisom/Kconfig                 |   4 +
> >>>>arch/arm/mach-chilisom/Makefile                |   6 +
> >>>>arch/arm/mach-chilisom/chilisom.c              | 185 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>>>arch/arm/mach-chilisom/include/mach/chilisom.h |  15 ++
> >>>>6 files changed, 213 insertions(+)
> >>>
> >>>These don't belong in a new mach directory, this should end up in
> >>>board/grinn/common/ instead, thanks!
> >>>
> >>
> >>This will work for all grinn boards. But the idea is that some other
> >>vendor can make a board that will use chilisom as it's base. And in
> >>that case sources from board/grinn/common/ directory won't compile.
> >>Do you have any idea how to bypass this restriction?
> >
> >Good question.  I think the full answer here is that oops,
> >arch/arm/mach-litesom shouldn't have been ACK'd as other SoMs (say
> >board/solidrun/mx6cuboxi/) just keep everything central to the board
> >directory and expect that derivations will just copy the directory and
> >edit in-place.  That said, that is indeed not optimal, especially since
> >you've already done the leg-work to split things for SoM and carrier.
> >Perhaps arch/arm/mach-omap2/am33xx/chilisom.c (depends on
> >CONFIG_AM33XX_CHILISOM, which gets select'd by the boards in question).
> >And then a similar change for mach-litesom into arch/arm/cpu/armv7/mx6/
> >(which will get moved to arch/arm/mach-imx at some point I believe).
> >Thanks!
> >
> 
> Ok, so I will move source to arch/arm/mach-omap2/am33xx/chilisom.c as
> you suggested. What about chilisom.h? Should it go to
> arch/arm/mach-omap2/include/mach/ (which is not existing right now) or
> should it be in arch/arm/include/asm/arch-am33xx/ as other headers?

It should go in arch/arm/include/asm/arch-am33xx/ and then please also
do a follow-up series to change litesom, thanks again!

-- 
Tom
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