Hi Steffen, > On Oct 27, 2014, at 20:00 , Steffen Trumtrar <s.trumtrar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 05:45:03PM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: >> Hi Stefan, >> >>> On Oct 27, 2014, at 17:32 , Steffen Trumtrar <s.trumtrar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 05:05:29PM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: >>>> Hi Mark, >>>> >>>>> On Oct 27, 2014, at 17:01 , Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 01:48:02PM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: >>>>>>> On Oct 24, 2014, at 02:51 , atull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>> + - init-val : 0 if driver should disable bridge at startup >>>>>>> + 1 if driver should enable bridge at startup >>>>>>> + driver leaves bridge in current state if property not >>>>>>> + specified. >>>>> >>>>>> Isn’t init-val a boolean property? It’s not named very well. >>>>> >>>>> It's not boolean, it's tristate - turn on, turn off or don't touch. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I see. Even then ‘init-val’ is cryptic. I’d prefer two booleans, >>>> enable-at-startup; disable-at-startup. >>>> >>>>>> Along with the label, is kinda hard to defend as configuration in DT. >>>>> >>>>> Yeah... presumably this decision would fall out of the users? >>>> >>>> Well, it’s the user that should make the decision, but the driver should >>>> pick it up. This works but it’s not very nice. >>>> >>> >>> Hm, convince me why this AXI bus is so special, that I even need an >>> "init-val" property? Other buses don't have that. >>> Why don't I add a property "init-val" to my SPI buses, so I can enable >>> it in the DT and still have it in reset, just because.... >>> >>> The bridges on the SoCFPGA are buses, from the HPS to the FPGA. If I have >>> written firmware to the FPGA and I have subnodes on that bus, I have to >>> get it out of reset and probe everything. Normal procedure, no ?! >>> >> >> Well, it’s not my speciality, but my understanding is that FPGAs take (considerable) >> time to be programmed. If someone has already configured the ‘bus’ it is considered >> a win to not reload the bitstream. I.e. if you boot with the bootloader having loaded >> the bitstream already, you don’t want to do it again. >> >> I’m afraid there’s no such analogue with standard hardware busses like SPI, where >> the bus setup time is instantaneous. > > Ah, okay. I see why you got confused. > The bridges are not in any way responsible for loading the FPGA nor will > resetting them reset the bitstream. > > The FPGA Manager, a different IP core, is responsible for that. And AFAIK > it has a status bit, that tells you if the FPGA is programmed or not. > Loading the bitstream is in the order of milliseconds. > > So from the bridges point of view, when you probe it, you can ask the > FPGA manager if is done, otherwise -EPROBE_DEFER and than go on and > probe the subdevices. > > Ohh, I see. Sorry for the confusion. > If you are bored, take a look at > http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/cyclone-v/cv_54004.pdf > page 7-2. There you can see the hardware setup. > Thanks. /me throws it at the pile of things to read… > Regards, > Steffen > > > -- > Pengutronix e.K. | | > Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | > Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | > Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | Regards — Pantelis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
