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Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 21:54:38 +0200
From: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
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	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] bcma: use separated function to initialize bus on
 SoC
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On 09/01/2014 11:11 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> This is required to split SoC bus init into two phases. The later one
> (which includes scanning) should be called when kalloc is available.
> 
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>

> ---
> John: please note this patch touches arch/mips/bcm47xx/setup.c
> 
> This patches is a first step of simplifying MIPS booting process on
> Broadcom SoCs. My research described in:
>> Booting bcm47xx (bcma & stuff), sharing code with bcm53xx
> e-mail thread explained how we could get rid of all these early scanning
> tricks. The main idea is to postpone bus initialization a bit and use
> all standard calls then. So far we were doing it so early we had to
> avoid kalloc.
> ---
>  arch/mips/bcm47xx/setup.c     |  4 ++++
>  drivers/bcma/host_soc.c       | 11 +++++++++--
>  include/linux/bcma/bcma_soc.h |  1 +
>  3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>