Re: [PATCH 2/4] ARM: dts: exynos4412-odroidx: enable common hardware blocks

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On 19.06.2014 14:21, Daniel Drake wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Marek Szyprowski
> <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> This patch adds support for common hardware modules available on all
>> Exynos4412-based Odroid boards, which already have complete support in
>> mainline kernel. This includes secure firmware calls, watchdog, g2d and
>> fimc (mem2mem) multimedia accelerators.
> 
> For the secure firmware, this is indeed required for U2/U3, otherwise
> the system crashes in weird ways during early boot. If this entry also
> makes sense for ODROID-X, I'm surprised it was not there already, does
> it boot without it?

It probably does, but certain things fail, such as secondary CPU bring-up.

> 
> As for the watchdog, g2d and fimc, is there really any Exynos4412
> configuration where such components are not available?
> Sorry if that is a silly question - just wondering why we wouldn't
> enable these in exynos4412.dtsi.

I believe they should all be enabled at highest possible level, as they
don't have any board-specific hardware dependencies. Probably even in
exynos4.dtsi for some of them (watchdog likely).

Best regards,
Tomasz
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