[PATCH] PowerPC: Remove hardcoded BAT configuration of IMMR in CPM early debug console

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Jun 2 02:06:32 EST 2010


On 06/01/2010 08:43 AM, Martyn Welch wrote:
>>>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_32.S
>>>> b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_32.S
>>>> index e025e89..861cace 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_32.S
>>>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_32.S
>>>> @@ -1194,12 +1194,13 @@ setup_disp_bat:
>>>>    #endif /* CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT */
>>>>
>>>>    #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_CPM
>>>> +#define PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_CPM_ADDR
>>>> ASM_CONST(CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_CPM_ADDR)
>>>>    setup_cpm_bat:
>>>> -    lis    r8, 0xf000
>>>> +    lis    r8, PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_CPM_ADDR at ha
>>>>        ori    r8, r8,    0x002a
>>>>        mtspr    SPRN_DBAT1L, r8
>>>>
>>>> -    lis    r11, 0xf000
>>>> +    lis    r11, PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_CPM_ADDR at ha
>>>>        ori    r11, r11, (BL_1M<<  2) | 2
>>>>        mtspr    SPRN_DBAT1U, r11
>>>>
>>> Only the physical address should depend on where IMMR is.  We should
>>> use fixmap instead of an arbitrary address for the effective address.
>>> There's a existing FIX_EARLY_DEBUG_BASE, but it's only 128 KiB so
>>> we'll have to either grow it, or map only a subset of IMMR.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I think that's a more fundamental change to CPM early debug than I can
>> handle right now.

Is IMMRBASE on your board at some address that has a low likelihood of 
conflicting when treated as a kernel effective address?

>>> Plus, CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_CPM_ADDR points to the TX descriptor, not
>>> to the beginning of IMMR, so you should mask off the lower 20 bits
>>> (the offset is probably less than 64K, and the BAT might just ignore
>>> the extra bits anyway, but why take chances?).
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I assume that an extra instruction "andi   r8, r8, 0xfff0" after each
>> "lis" instruction  would be what you are looking for?
>>
>>
> "andis" even.

"lis r8, (PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_CPM_ADDR & 0xfff00000)@h" should work too.

-Scott


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