Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752177AbaBGIPg (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Feb 2014 03:15:36 -0500 Received: from eu1sys200aog108.obsmtp.com ([207.126.144.125]:34765 "EHLO eu1sys200aog108.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751920AbaBGIPe (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Feb 2014 03:15:34 -0500 Message-ID: <52F49461.2020008@st.com> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 08:08:01 +0000 From: srinivas kandagatla User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: , , Russell King , , Linus Walleij , Patrice CHOTARD , , Stuart Menefy , Rob Herring , Grant Likely , Giuseppe Cavallaro , , Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] ARM: STi: add stid127 soc support References: <1391093744-19905-1-git-send-email-patrice.chotard@st.com> <201401312115.33731.arnd@arndb.de> <52F22508.7080706@st.com> <201402061746.30248.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <201402061746.30248.arnd@arndb.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.65.51.147] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/02/14 16:46, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 05 February 2014, srinivas kandagatla wrote: >> Currently l2cc bindings has few optional properties like. >> >> - arm,data-latency >> - arm,tag-latency >> - arm,dirty-latency >> - arm,filter-ranges >> - interrupts : >> - cache-id-part: >> - wt-override: >> >> These does not include properties to set "way-size", "associativity", >> "enabling prefetching", "Prefetch drop enable", "prefetch offset", >> "Double linefill" and few more in prefect control register and >> aux-control register. >> >> This is not just a issue with STi SOCs, having a quick look, I can see >> that few more SOCs have similar requirements to set these properties. >> >> We could do two things to get l2 setup automatically on STi SOCS. >> >> 1> Either define these properties case-by-case basic, which might be >> useful for other SOCs too. >> >> 2> Or Add new compatible string for STi SoCs so that they can >> automatically setup these values in cache-l2x0.c >> >> Am Ok with either approaches. >> > > I suggested 1 in the past, but the objection that I saw (can't > find the email at the moment) was that the additional settings > are "configuration" rather than "hardware properties". What I'd > really need to know from you is which of properties you listed > as missing above are actually needed for your platform, and whether > they can be classified as hardware specific or just configuration. On STi Platforms we need below properties to got for option 1. arm,way-size; arm,instruction-prefetch-enable; arm,data-prefetch-enable; we also want a property or a way to set "Shareable attribute Override Enable" bit in the Auxiliary Control Register, bit[22]. Thanks, srini > > Arnd > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/