[PATCH v3 3/3] powerpc/fsl: 85xx: add cache-sram support

Kumar Gala kumar.gala at freescale.com
Wed Dec 2 14:26:41 EST 2009


On Dec 1, 2009, at 11:04 AM, Scott Wood wrote:

> Mahajan Vivek-B08308 wrote:
>>> From: Wood Scott-B07421 Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 11:09 PM
>>>> Cache-sram does not have any device tree entry since it is not a  
>>>> hardware as such. Putting it under chosen can be another option.
>>>> I think, Scott (cc'ed) was of the opinion that since 32b
>>> base address
>>>> support is missing; so there is no point in moving this
>>> address to the
>>>> command line and .config should be okay for now for it.
>>> I don't know what you mean by "32b base address support is  
>>> missing".  I have no objection to putting it on the command line.
>> It was a typo, it should be missing 36b address support. Since the
>> kernel did not run under different environment (i.e 32b / 36b base  
>> address); so
>> it was decided that .config may be okay for this.
>
> The kernel *will* run with a 36-bit address map even if some of our  
> drivers don't support it right at the moment -- so we should be  
> planning for it.

Not only that but I'd like to move any future parts to only support a  
36-bit memory map.

- k


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