Hi Florian, > Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> hat am 2. November 2017 um 02:03 geschrieben: > > > Hi, > > As it usually happens when there is a fair amount of HW IP block re-use, > competing implementations show up. In that case the BCM2835 HWRNG driver and > the BCM63xx RNG driver have exactly the same register offsets and this is > indeed the same piece of HW. > > This patch series first prepares the bcm2835-rng to be more future proof and > support newer platforms, and the last part brings in what is necessary to > migrate the bcm63xx-rng over to bcm2835-rng. Finally we delete bcm63xx-rng > completely. > > The reason why BCM2835 RNG was kept over BCM63xx RNG is because the former > deals correctly with a warm up count and the number of words available in the > FIFO size. are these the same patches as in this branch [1]? https://github.com/ffainelli/linux/commits/rng-consolidation Regards Stefan > > Thanks! > > Florian Fainelli (12): > hwrng: bcm2835-rng: Obtain base register via resource > hwrng: bcm2835-rng: Define a driver private context > hwrng: bcm2835-rng: Move enabling to hwrng::init > hwrng: bcm2835-rng: Implementation cleanup callback > hwrng: bcm2835-rng: Use device managed helpers > hwrng: bcm2835-rng: Rework interrupt masking > hwrng: bcm2835-rng: Manage an optional clock > hwrng: bcm2835-rng: Abstract I/O accessors > hwrng: bcm2835-rng: Add Broadcom MIPS I/O accessors > dt-bindings: rng: Incorporate brcm,bcm6368.txt binding > hwrng: bcm2835-rng: Enable BCM2835 RNG to work on BCM63xx platforms > hwrng: bcm63xx-rng: Remove since bcm2835-rng takes over > > .../devicetree/bindings/rng/brcm,bcm2835.txt | 22 ++- > .../devicetree/bindings/rng/brcm,bcm6368.txt | 17 --- > drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig | 20 +-- > drivers/char/hw_random/Makefile | 1 - > drivers/char/hw_random/bcm2835-rng.c | 166 ++++++++++++++------- > drivers/char/hw_random/bcm63xx-rng.c | 154 ------------------- > 6 files changed, 139 insertions(+), 241 deletions(-) > delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rng/brcm,bcm6368.txt > delete mode 100644 drivers/char/hw_random/bcm63xx-rng.c > > -- > 2.9.3 > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-arm-kernel mailing list > linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
