[PATCH 2/8] metag: minimal TZ1090 (Comet) SoC infrastructure

[Catalin Marinas]

On 23 April 2013 17:06, James Hogan <james.hogan at imgtec.com> wrote:
> On 23/04/13 16:25, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Tuesday 23 April 2013, James Hogan wrote:
>>
>>> @@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ core-y                                    += arch/metag/boot/dts/
>>>  core-y                                      += arch/metag/kernel/
>>>  core-y                                      += arch/metag/mm/
>>>
>>> +# SoCs
>>> +socdir-$(CONFIG_SOC_TZ1090)         += tz1090
>>> +
>>> +socdirs             := $(filter-out ., $(patsubst %,%/,$(socdir-y)))
>>> +core-y              += $(addprefix arch/metag/soc/, $(socdirs))
>>> +
>>
>> Does it actually make sense to have subdirectories per soc? I would
>> suggest you copy from arm64 rather from arm for the platform support and
>> do it as minimal as possible. Any code you need can go into a shared directory
>> as a start, and if you end up needing more of a hierarchical structure,
>> you can add that later. Hopefully we've come to the point now where almost
>> everything can live in drivers/* though.
>
> Where is the shared directory for arm64 platforms? (arch/arm64 is
> looking pretty bare).

There is no platform-specific code under arch/arm64/. SoC code is
split into various subsystems under drivers/ and it lives there
(including timers and irqchip). We have the SMP booting protocol but
there is no reason why SoCs can't use a common one (or two) specified
via DT (as it is the case of other SoC specific definitions).

> It's certainly heading in that direction a lot. For this patchset I
> could get away with dropping arch/metag/soc/*, and deal with anything
> that really requires something like it later.
>
> The machine callbacks I was planning on using in future patches are:
> * init_time() for calling into the appropriate common clock driver from
> time_init(), prior to setting up the timer so that the right frequency
> can be reported based on the clock hierarchy specified in DT. I guess
> this could be made more general, allowing any enabled clock component to
> be initialised at this time.

This is driven by DT on arm64, no need for platform callback (see
drivers/clocksource/arch_arm_timer.c).

> * init_irq(), for dynamically detecting evaluation silicon and if so
> telling the interrupt controller that there are no mask registers (easy
> to drop tbh since nobody uses TZ1090 evaluation silicon any longer).

Similarly, DT-driven (e.g. drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c) with
irqchip_init() called from the arm64 init_IRQ().

> * probably something for setting up power management (suspend to ram /
> standby and associated asm code), which would also be used by some
> TZ1090 based boards requiring their own power management variations.

If you can separate the CPU-specific power management (like cache
flushing, MMU off) from the SoC part, you can place the SoC under
drivers/power/reset/. We currently moved the vexpress there, though it
is not a complete example for power management. We'll see when we get
more platforms.

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Catalin