On 9/23/2015 2:55 PM, Ray Jui wrote:
>
>
> On 9/23/2015 2:29 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Friday 18 September 2015 15:11:27 Ray Jui wrote:
>>> On 9/18/2015 2:34 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>>> On Friday 18 September 2015 14:24:10 Ray Jui wrote:
>>>>> + soc {
>>>>> + compatible = "simple-bus";
>>>>> + ranges;
>>>>> + #address-cells = <1>;
>>>>> + #size-cells = <1>;
>>>>
>>>>> + pinctrl: pinctrl@0301d0c8 {
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Similarly to the core bus, this seems to have address ranges 0x03xxxxxx and
>>>> 0x18xxxxxx on it, so put those into the ranges.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Okay we have an issue here. For whatever reason, the Cygnus ASIC team
>>> decided to put registers for the same block in random locations. We see
>>> similar issues in all of our other iProc based SoCs. We have
>>> communicated this to our ASIC team, and hopefully they can revert the
>>> trend for the next SoC.
>>>
>>> For example, the gpio_ccm has registers in the following regions:
>>>
>>> gpio_ccm: gpio@1800a000 {
>>> compatible = "brcm,cygnus-ccm-gpio";
>>> reg = <0x1800a000 0x50>,
>>> <0x0301d164 0x20>;
>>>
>>> NAND is worse, it has registers in 3 different separate regions:
>>>
>>> nand: nand@18046000 {
>>> compatible = "brcm,nand-iproc", "brcm,brcmnand-v6.1",
>>> "brcm,brcmnand";
>>> reg = <0x18046000 0x600>, <0xf8105408 0x600>,
>>> <0x18046f00 0x20>;
>>>
>>> As you can see, this makes it impossible to define a proper address
>>> range for the bus; therefore, I'll have to keep the ranges undefined and
>>> a simple 1:1 mapping under this bus.
>>
>> Hmm, you could still try to list them as non-overlapping with other
>> buses on the root node like
>>
>> ranges = <0x03000000 0x03000000 0x01000000>,
>> <0x18000000 0x18000000 0x01000000>,
>> <0xf8000000 0xf8000000 0x01000000>;
>>
>> which clarifies how the bus is wired up in hardware.
>>
>> Alternatively, you could make a more elaborate mapping, if there
>> are in fact multiple hardware ranges, like
>>
>> #address-cells = <2>; # space:offset
>> ranges = <1 0 0x03000000 0x01000000>,
>> <2 0 0x18000000 0x01000000>,
>> <3 0 0xf8000000 0x01000000>;
>>
>> It really depends on what the hardware designers were thinking. If
>> the AXI bus actually decodes the entire 32-bit address range and devices
>> are just located at random addresses in there, your current scheme is
>> probably closest to reality.
>>
>
> I see. Let me talk to our ASIC team to get this clarified. If in the end
> the AXI bus decodes the entire 32-bit address space, no change will be
> made. Otherwise, I'll submit another patch to list the actual address
> space that the AXI bus decodes.
>
> Thanks for the review. It's very helpful!
>
> Ray
>
I just got feedback from our ASIC team. The NIC-301 is the main AXI
fabric that decodes the entire 32-bit address space on Cygnus.
I'll keep this as it is for now.
Thanks,
Ray
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