On 11/12/2014, 09:46 AM, Kevin Cernekee wrote:
> SoC peripherals can come in several different flavors:
>
> - little-endian: registers always need to be accessed in LE mode (so the
> kernel should perform a swap if the CPU is running BE)
>
> - big-endian: registers always need to be accessed in BE mode (so the
> kernel should perform a swap if the CPU is running LE)
>
> - native-endian: the bus will automatically swap accesses, so the kernel
> should never swap
>
> Introduce a function that checks an OF device node to see whether it
> contains a "big-endian" or "native-endian" property. For the former case,
> always return 1. For the latter case, return 1 iff the kernel was built
> for BE (implying that the BE MMIO accessors do not perform a swap).
> Otherwise return 0, assuming LE registers.
>
> LE registers are assumed by default because most existing drivers (libahci,
> serial8250, usb) always use readl/writel in the absence of instructions
> to the contrary, so that will be our fallback.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/of/base.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/of.h | 6 ++++++
> 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/of/base.c b/drivers/of/base.c
> index 3823edf..9dd494a 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/base.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/base.c
> @@ -552,6 +552,29 @@ int of_device_is_available(const struct device_node *device)
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_device_is_available);
>
> /**
> + * of_device_is_big_endian - check if a device has BE registers
> + *
> + * @device: Node to check for availability
> + *
> + * Returns 1 if the device has a "big-endian" property, or if the kernel
> + * was compiled for BE *and* the device has a "native-endian" property.
> + * Returns 0 otherwise.
> + *
> + * Callers would nominally use ioread32be/iowrite32be if
> + * of_device_is_big_endian() == 1, or readl/writel otherwise.
> + */
> +int of_device_is_big_endian(const struct device_node *device)
> +{
> + if (of_property_read_bool(device, "big-endian"))
> + return 1;
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN) &&
> + of_property_read_bool(device, "native-endian"))
> + return 1;
> + return 0;
> +}
This should actually return bool and use true/false.
--
js
suse labs
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