Hello Kevin, Le Saturday 16 October 2010 23:22:30, Kevin Cernekee a écrit : > BMIPS processor cores are used in 50+ different chipsets spread across > 5+ product lines. In many cases the chipsets do not share the same > peripheral register layouts, the same register blocks, the same > interrupt controllers, the same memory maps, or much of anything else. > > But, across radically different SoCs that share nothing more than the > same BMIPS CPU, a few things are still mostly constant: > > SMP operations > Access to performance counters > DMA cache coherency quirks > Cache and memory bus configuration > > So, it makes sense to treat each BMIPS processor type as a generic > "building block," rather than tying it to a specific SoC. This makes it > easier to support a large number of BMIPS-based chipsets without > unnecessary duplication of code, and provides the infrastructure needed > to support BMIPS-proprietary features. > > Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@xxxxxxxxx> I boot tested all of your nine patches on a BCM6348 system without problems. Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <ffainelli@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Florian
