[PATCH 6/7] ARM: mackerel: support booting with or without DT

Guennadi Liakhovetski g.liakhovetski at gmx.de
Sun Dec 16 06:02:39 EST 2012


Hi Simon

Thanks for your comments. I'll reply to other your reviews later, I think, 
let me just briefly clarify this one.

On Sat, 15 Dec 2012, Simon Horman wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 05:45:30PM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > This patch adds dynamic switching to booting either with or without DT.
> > So far only a part of the board initialisation can be done via DT. Devices,
> > that still need platform data are kept that way. Devices, that can be
> > initialised from DT will not be supplied from the platform data, if a DT
> > image is detected.
> 
> Hi Guennadi,
> 
> I'm not sure that I'm entirely comfortable with the implications
> for users here.
> 
> In the beginning there was no DT for Mackerel, all boots were non-DT,
> and in general the board and its devices have been well supported.
> 
> At the present time Mackerel only boots using DT, though almost all
> the initialisation is done in C. Thus currently a DT boot fairly full
> support for the board and its devices.
> 
> If I understand things correctly, with this change, a DT boot becomes a
> limited boot that basically only supports devices that can be initialised
> using DT. And users are expected to go back to a non-DT boot if they want
> fuller support.  This seems undesirable.

No, it's in a way the contrary. As you correctly point out after a recent 
change mackerel _must_ only be booted with DT, and, I think, this way an 
undesirable change. After this series of patches both becomes possible: 
booting with and without DT. And in both cases all devices are supported. 
If booting without DT, all devices are supported in the "legacy" way from 
the board file. If booting with DT _some_ devices, for which sufficient DT 
support already exist are initialised from the .dts file, others are still 
initialised from the .c. This way all devices are still supported. Note, 
however, that some devices don't have a complete DT support yet, e.g., you 
cannot specify card-detect GPIOs in .dts because of the lacking pincontrol 
/ GPIO DT support. As soon as that is added, .dts will have to be 
extended respectively. Similarly, as more devices get DT support they can 
be added to the .dts and excluded from the DT boot by putting them under 

+	if (!of_have_populated_dt()) {

clauses. If we ever come to a point, that no-DT booting will not have to 
be supported any more, these clauses and respective devices can be easily 
removed from board-mackerel.c. (Continued below)

> The approach that I took with the kzm9g was to provide an alternate dts and
> board file, and compatibility string. Clearly that is not an entirely
> elegant solution. But it does avoid the problem that I describe above.
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski at gmx.de>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-mackerel.c |   84 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> >  1 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-mackerel.c b/arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-mackerel.c
> > index 39b8f2e..a6358c9 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-mackerel.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-mackerel.c
> > @@ -1326,7 +1326,6 @@ static struct platform_device mackerel_camera = {
> >  
> >  static struct platform_device *mackerel_devices[] __initdata = {
> >  	&nor_flash_device,
> > -	&smc911x_device,
> >  	&lcdc_device,
> >  	&usbhs0_device,
> >  	&usbhs1_device,
> > @@ -1335,17 +1334,21 @@ static struct platform_device *mackerel_devices[] __initdata = {
> >  	&fsi_ak4643_device,
> >  	&fsi_hdmi_device,
> >  	&nand_flash_device,
> > +	&ceu_device,
> > +	&mackerel_camera,
> > +	&hdmi_device,
> > +	&hdmi_lcdc_device,
> > +	&meram_device,
> > +};
> > +
> > +static struct platform_device *mackerel_devices_dt[] __initdata = {
> > +	&smc911x_device,
> >  	&sdhi0_device,
> >  #if !defined(CONFIG_MMC_SH_MMCIF) && !defined(CONFIG_MMC_SH_MMCIF_MODULE)
> >  	&sdhi1_device,
> >  #endif
> >  	&sdhi2_device,
> >  	&sh_mmcif_device,
> > -	&ceu_device,
> > -	&mackerel_camera,
> > -	&hdmi_device,
> > -	&hdmi_lcdc_device,
> > -	&meram_device,
> >  };
> >  
> >  /* Keypad Initialization */
> > @@ -1404,6 +1407,24 @@ static struct i2c_board_info i2c1_devices[] = {
> >  	},
> >  };
> >  
> > +static int mackerel_i2c_bus_notify(struct notifier_block *nb,
> > +				   unsigned long action, void *data)
> > +{
> > +	struct device *dev = data;
> > +
> > +	if (action != BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE ||
> > +	    strcmp(dev_name(dev->parent), "fff20000.i2c"))
> > +		return NOTIFY_DONE;
> > +
> > +	i2c_new_device(to_i2c_adapter(dev), &i2c0_devices[1]);
> > +
> > +	return NOTIFY_OK;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static struct notifier_block mackerel_i2c_notifier = {
> > +	.notifier_call = mackerel_i2c_bus_notify,
> > +};
> > +
> >  #define GPIO_PORT9CR	IOMEM(0xE6051009)
> >  #define GPIO_PORT10CR	IOMEM(0xE605100A)
> >  #define GPIO_PORT167CR	IOMEM(0xE60520A7)
> > @@ -1420,22 +1441,26 @@ static void __init mackerel_init(void)
> 
> I wonder if it would be cleaner to achieve this by providing
> mackerel_init_dt().

I thought about this, but initialisation is interleaved and in some cases 
order is important, so, you would need something like "early_dt()," 
"mid_early_common()," "late_dt()" etc., which doesn't seem an improvement 
to me:-)

> >  		{ "A3SP", &usbhs0_device, },
> >  		{ "A3SP", &usbhs1_device, },
> >  		{ "A3SP", &nand_flash_device, },
> > +		{ "A4R", &ceu_device, },
> > +	};
> > +	struct pm_domain_device domain_devices_dt[] = {
> >  		{ "A3SP", &sh_mmcif_device, },
> >  		{ "A3SP", &sdhi0_device, },
> >  #if !defined(CONFIG_MMC_SH_MMCIF) && !defined(CONFIG_MMC_SH_MMCIF_MODULE)
> >  		{ "A3SP", &sdhi1_device, },
> >  #endif
> >  		{ "A3SP", &sdhi2_device, },
> > -		{ "A4R", &ceu_device, },
> >  	};
> >  	u32 srcr4;
> >  	struct clk *clk;
> >  
> > -	regulator_register_always_on(0, "fixed-1.8V", fixed1v8_power_consumers,
> > -				     ARRAY_SIZE(fixed1v8_power_consumers), 1800000);
> > -	regulator_register_always_on(1, "fixed-3.3V", fixed3v3_power_consumers,
> > -				     ARRAY_SIZE(fixed3v3_power_consumers), 3300000);
> > -	regulator_register_fixed(2, dummy_supplies, ARRAY_SIZE(dummy_supplies));
> > +	if (!of_have_populated_dt()) {
> > +		regulator_register_always_on(0, "fixed-1.8V", fixed1v8_power_consumers,
> > +					     ARRAY_SIZE(fixed1v8_power_consumers), 1800000);
> > +		regulator_register_always_on(1, "fixed-3.3V", fixed3v3_power_consumers,
> > +					     ARRAY_SIZE(fixed3v3_power_consumers), 3300000);
> > +		regulator_register_fixed(2, dummy_supplies, ARRAY_SIZE(dummy_supplies));
> > +	}
> >  
> >  	/* External clock source */
> >  	clk_set_rate(&sh7372_dv_clki_clk, 27000000);
> > @@ -1633,22 +1658,35 @@ static void __init mackerel_init(void)
> >  	udelay(50);
> >  	__raw_writel(srcr4 & ~(1 << 13), SRCR4);
> >  
> > -	i2c_register_board_info(0, i2c0_devices,
> > -				ARRAY_SIZE(i2c0_devices));
> > -	i2c_register_board_info(1, i2c1_devices,
> > -				ARRAY_SIZE(i2c1_devices));
> > +	if (!of_have_populated_dt()) {
> > +		i2c_register_board_info(0, i2c0_devices,
> > +					ARRAY_SIZE(i2c0_devices));
> > +		i2c_register_board_info(1, i2c1_devices,
> > +					ARRAY_SIZE(i2c1_devices));
> > +	} else {
> > +		bus_register_notifier(&i2c_bus_type,
> > +				      &mackerel_i2c_notifier);
> > +	}
> >  
> >  	sh7372_add_standard_devices();
> >  
> >  	platform_add_devices(mackerel_devices, ARRAY_SIZE(mackerel_devices));
> > +	if (!of_have_populated_dt())
> > +		platform_add_devices(mackerel_devices_dt,
> > +				     ARRAY_SIZE(mackerel_devices_dt));
> >  
> >  	rmobile_add_devices_to_domains(domain_devices,
> >  				       ARRAY_SIZE(domain_devices));
> > +	if (!of_have_populated_dt())
> > +		rmobile_add_devices_to_domains(domain_devices_dt,
> > +					       ARRAY_SIZE(domain_devices_dt));
> >  
> >  	hdmi_init_pm_clock();
> >  	sh7372_pm_init();
> >  	pm_clk_add(&fsi_device.dev, "spu2");
> >  	pm_clk_add(&hdmi_lcdc_device.dev, "hdmi");
> > +
> > +	of_platform_populate(NULL, of_default_bus_match_table, NULL, NULL);
> >  }
> >  
> >  static const char *mackerel_boards_compat_dt[] __initdata = {
> > @@ -1659,10 +1697,20 @@ static const char *mackerel_boards_compat_dt[] __initdata = {
> >  DT_MACHINE_START(MACKEREL_DT, "mackerel")
> >  	.map_io		= sh7372_map_io,
> >  	.init_early	= sh7372_add_early_devices,
> > -	.init_irq	= sh7372_init_irq,
> > +	.init_irq	= sh7372_init_irq_of,
> > +	.handle_irq	= shmobile_handle_irq_intc,
> > +	.init_machine	= mackerel_init,
> > +	.init_late	= sh7372_pm_init_late,
> > +	.timer		= &shmobile_timer,
> > +	.dt_compat	= mackerel_boards_compat_dt,
> > +MACHINE_END
> > +
> > +MACHINE_START(MACKEREL, "mackerel")
> > +	.map_io		= sh7372_map_io,
> > +	.init_early	= sh7372_add_early_devices,
> > +	.init_irq	= sh7372_init_irq_of,
> 
> Could sh7372_init_irq be used here ?

Yes, it could. I'll reply to your other review separately, briefly, by 
using the conditional, that I proposed in my patch 3/7 we could make the 
non-dt version static and let everyone just use sh7372_init_irq_of. But 
this is just an idea, we can keep sh7372_init_irq() too if this is 
prefered.

Thanks
Guennadi

> >  	.handle_irq	= shmobile_handle_irq_intc,
> >  	.init_machine	= mackerel_init,
> >  	.init_late	= sh7372_pm_init_late,
> >  	.timer		= &shmobile_timer,
> > -	.dt_compat  = mackerel_boards_compat_dt,
> >  MACHINE_END
> > -- 
> > 1.7.2.5

---
Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
Freelance Open-Source Software Developer
http://www.open-technology.de/


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