[PATCH 2/4] sparc: break out some prom device-tree building code out into drivers/of
Grant Likely
grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Wed Jul 7 08:06:54 EST 2010
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Andres Salomon <dilinger at queued.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 03:21:21 -0600
> Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Andres Salomon <dilinger at queued.net>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Stick code into drivers/of/pdt.c (Prom Device Tree) that other
>> > architectures with OpenFirmware resident in memory can make use of.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger at queued.net>
>>
>> Some more comments below...
>>
>
> Thanks for the review!
>
>
>
>> > arch/sparc/Kconfig | 1 +
>> > arch/sparc/include/asm/prom.h | 15 +++-
>> > arch/sparc/kernel/prom.h | 14 ---
>> > arch/sparc/kernel/prom_common.c | 173
>> > +------------------------------ drivers/of/Kconfig |
>> > 4 + drivers/of/Makefile | 1 +
>> > drivers/of/pdt.c | 225
>> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/of_pdt.h
>> > | 37 +++++++ 8 files changed, 282 insertions(+), 188
>> > deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/of/pdt.c
>> > create mode 100644 include/linux/of_pdt.h
>> >
>> > diff --git a/arch/sparc/Kconfig b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
>> > index 6f1470b..b4cb63b 100644
>> > --- a/arch/sparc/Kconfig
>> > +++ b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
>> > @@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ config ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS
>> >
>> > config OF
>> > def_bool y
>> > + select OF_PROMTREE
>> >
>> > config ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
>> > def_bool y if SPARC64
>> > diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/prom.h
>> > b/arch/sparc/include/asm/prom.h index f845828..0834c2a 100644
>> > --- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/prom.h
>> > +++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/prom.h
>> > @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
>> > * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
>> > */
>> > #include <linux/types.h>
>> > +#include <linux/of_pdt.h>
>> > #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
>> > #include <linux/mutex.h>
>> > #include <asm/atomic.h>
>> > @@ -65,8 +66,18 @@ extern struct device_node *of_console_device;
>> > extern char *of_console_path;
>> > extern char *of_console_options;
>> >
>> > -extern void (*prom_build_more)(struct device_node *dp, struct
>> > device_node ***nextp); -extern char *build_full_name(struct
>> > device_node *dp); +/* stuff used by of/pdt */
>> > +extern void * prom_early_alloc(unsigned long size);
>> > +extern void irq_trans_init(struct device_node *dp);
>> > +extern char *build_path_component(struct device_node *dp);
>> > +
>> > +extern char *prom_firstprop(int node, char *buffer);
>> > +extern char *prom_nextprop(int node, const char *oprop, char
>> > *buffer); +extern int prom_getproplen(int node, const char *prop);
>> > +extern int prom_getproperty(int node, const char *prop,
>> > + char *buffer, int bufsize);
>> > +extern int prom_getchild(int node);
>> > +extern int prom_getsibling(int node);
>>
>> These become the API required by of/pdt. They should be defined in a
>> arch-independent header file. Something like include/linux/of_pdt.h
>>
>> Right now only OLPC will be using this, so static function definitions
>> are just fine. However, if there is ever more than one method for
>> talking to OFW, then these hooks will need to be converted into an ops
>> structure so the right one can be passed in at runtime.
>>
>
> Note that sparc and OLPC actually use slightly different function
> signatures; OLPC uses phandles for nodes, while sparc uses ints. Not a
> huge difference, but enough that I didn't want to mess w/ a generic
> version of it early in the process.
phandle is simply defined as a u32. It probably wouldn't be difficult
to change the sparc code to use phandle; redefining the type for sparc
if need be.
> I agree that op structs would be
> nicer, and will probably move towards that.
>
> [...]
>
>> > diff --git a/include/linux/of_pdt.h b/include/linux/of_pdt.h
>> > new file mode 100644
>> > index 0000000..f62616e
>> > --- /dev/null
>> > +++ b/include/linux/of_pdt.h
>> > @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
>> > +#include <linux/of.h> /* linux/of.h gets to determine #include
>> > ordering */
>>
>> Do you really need this #include in this way? Can it be moved inside
>> the #ifndef OF_PDT block below?
>>
>
> Not sure, will try out different variants and see what breaks.
>
> [...]
>
>> Another general comment, I'm still not thrilled with this code having
>> its own independent method for building the tree, but I doubt the
>> existing add/remove nodes and properties code is usable early enough
>> to be suitable for sparc. How early do you extract the device tree on
>> OLPC? How are you going to use the data?
>
> Not that early; very early code fetches information necessary to call
> into the PROM, and ensures that the kernel doesn't clobber OFW's
> memory. After that, we can build the dt at any point during init.
> The data is to be exported via proc for userspace to use in
> determining hardware (and firmware) info.
Okay, so it is only the userspace interface that you're interested in,
correct? You have no needs/plans (as of yet) to register devices out
of the device tree?
g.
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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
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