[PATCH 4/5] powerpc/fsl-booke: Add B4_QDS board support

Leekha Shaveta-B20052 B20052 at freescale.com
Thu Apr 4 18:10:41 EST 2013



-----Original Message-----
From: Kumar Gala [mailto:galak at kernel.crashing.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 10:12 PM
To: Leekha Shaveta-B20052
Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] powerpc/fsl-booke: Add B4_QDS board support


On Apr 2, 2013, at 2:16 AM, Shaveta Leekha wrote:

> - Add support for B4 board in board file b4_qds.c, It is common for 
> B4860, B4420 and B4220QDS as they share same QDS board
> - Add B4QDS support in Kconfig and Makefile
> 
> B4860QDS is a high-performance computing evaluation, development and 
> test platform supporting the B4860 QorIQ Power Architecture processor, 
> with following major features:
> 
>   - Four dual-threaded e6500 Power Architecture processors
>     organized in one cluster-each core runs up to 1.8 GHz
>   - Two DDR3/3L controllers for high-speed memory interface each
>     runs at up to 1866.67 MHz
>   - CoreNet fabric that fully supports coherency using MESI protocol
>     between the e6500 cores, SC3900 FVP cores, memories and
>     external interfaces.
>   - Data Path Acceleration Architecture having FMAN, QMan, BMan, SEC 5.3 and RMAN
>   - Large internal cache memory with snooping and stashing capabilities
>   - Sixteen 10-GHz SerDes lanes that serve:
>       - Two SRIO interfaces. Each supports up to 4 lanes and
>         a total of up to 8 lanes
>       - Up to 8-lanes Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) controller
>         for glue-less antenna connection
>       - Two 10-Gbit Ethernet controllers (10GEC)
>       - Six 1G/2.5-Gbit Ethernet controllers for network communications
>       - PCI Express controller
>       - Debug (Aurora)
>   - Various system peripherals
> 
> B4420 and B4220 have some differences in comparison to B4860 with 
> fewer core/clusters(both SC3900 and e6500), fewer DDR controllers, fewer serdes lanes, fewer SGMII interfaces and reduced target frequencies.
> 
> Key differences between B4860 and B4420:
> B4420 has:
>   - Fewer e6500 cores:
>       1 cluster with 2 e6500 cores
>   - Fewer SC3900 cores/clusters:
>       1 cluster with 2 SC3900 cores per cluster
>   - Single DDRC @ 1.6GHz
>   - 2 X 4 lane serdes
>   - 3 SGMII interfaces
>   - no sRIO
>   - no 10G
> 
> Key differences between B4860 and B4220:
> B4220 has:
>   - Fewer e6500 cores:
>       1 cluster with 1 e6500 core
>   - Fewer SC3900 cores/clusters:
>       1 cluster with 2 SC3900 cores per cluster
>   - Single DDRC @ 1.33GHz
>   - 2 X 2 lane serdes
>   - 2 SGMII interfaces
>   - no sRIO
>   - no 10G
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shaveta Leekha <shaveta at freescale.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/Kconfig  |   17 ++++++
> arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/Makefile |    1 +
> arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/b4_qds.c |  102 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 120 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 
> arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/b4_qds.c

commit messages should line wrap at 75 chars.

- k
[SL] Ok, will do that.
Regards,
Shaveta 



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