Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750985Ab1EDHSr (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2011 03:18:47 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:35895 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750779Ab1EDHSq (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2011 03:18:46 -0400 Message-ID: <2543A75FDDB244D2A148C14BCAA5FD88@subhasishg> From: "Subhasish Ghosh" To: "Arnd Bergmann" Cc: , , , "Samuel Ortiz" , , "open list" , References: <1303474109-6212-1-git-send-email-subhasish@mistralsolutions.com> <201104271605.09537.arnd@arndb.de> <201104280935.38787.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <201104280935.38787.arnd@arndb.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/11] mfd: add pruss mfd driver. Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 12:48:43 +0530 Organization: Mistral Solutions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3449 Lines: 87 Hi Arnd, How about just doing something like: #> echo da8xx_pruss_uart >> firmware.bin i.e just append the device name (from the board file) into the firmware file. In the driver probe, we can parse from the bottom, when it reaches "da8xx_pruss", the rest of the upper data is the firmware and from the full name, we can determine if it's a CAN, UART or any other peripheral. So, based on the platform_data, which the MFD driver received, it can find out which device to initialize. Also, does the line wrapping look any better ? > On Thursday 28 April 2011 09:17:21 Subhasish Ghosh wrote: >> > >> > You can easily do that by adding a small header to the firmware >> > format and interpret that header by the MFD driver. When the name >> > of the subdevice is part of that header, the MFD driver does not >> > need to understand the difference, it can simply pass that on >> > when creating its child devices. >> >> I don't understand why loading the firmware should be done at the MFD >> driver. >> The user already specifies the device he/she wants to start on the PRU >> via >> modprobe. >> A driver can be inserted, which can download a printer firmware on one >> PRU >> and a >> scanner firmware on the other. This way both cores can be used for >> separate >> purposes. >> I mean, say in a real MFD controller, that will also have two separate >> cores >> running on it, >> just that, the firmware on it would not be downloaded runtime but fused >> in >> some non volatile memory. > > Then I must be misreading what your code currently does, because it does > not > match your explanations. What I see in the platform code is that you > create > MFD cells for specific devices that get automatically created by the MFD > driver. This will cause udev to load the drivers for these devices, which > then load the firmware they need. > > Also, I cannot see how the method you describe would make it possible to > the same driver into both units, e.g. when you want to have two serial > ports. The reason is that you currently hardcode the PRU number in the > driver and that you cannot load a single driver twice. > > Finally, I'm trying to make sure that whatever solution you come up with > will still work when we migrate the code to using a flattened device tree. > In that case, you would ideally put the device firmware into the device > tree as a property that matches whatever you have connected on the > specific > board (at least as an option, you can still fall back to > request_firmware). > You definitely want automatic module loading in that case. > > Note that using module loading with specific parameters in order to > match the hardware is not a recommended procedure any more. The code > really needs to work the same way when all drivers are built into the > kernel. It should not be hard to use the firmware loading mechanism > in the MFD driver to both load the firmware and configure the devices > appropriately so we always use the right driver for the currently > active devices. > > Arnd > > BTW, something is wrong with your email client line wrapping. I've fixed > this up manually before when replying, but please find a way to get this > right in the future. -- 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/