[PATCH 5/6] powerpc/fsl-booke: Add B4_QDS board support
Leekha Shaveta-B20052
B20052 at freescale.com
Tue Mar 19 17:07:43 EST 2013
-----Original Message-----
From: Kumar Gala [mailto:galak at kernel.crashing.org]
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 8:26 PM
To: Leekha Shaveta-B20052
Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] powerpc/fsl-booke: Add B4_QDS board support
On Mar 18, 2013, at 1:28 AM, Leekha Shaveta-B20052 wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kumar Gala [mailto:galak at kernel.crashing.org]
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 9:28 PM
> To: Leekha Shaveta-B20052
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] powerpc/fsl-booke: Add B4_QDS board support
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> On Mar 15, 2013, at 2:55 AM, Shaveta Leekha wrote:
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>> - Add support for B4 board's personalities in board file b4_qds.c,
>> It is common for B4 personalities B4860 and B4420QDS
>> - Add B4QDS support in Kconfig and Makefile
>
> Code also references a B4220, what about it?
> [SL] I have added the basic support for it in board file as it's one
> of the personality of B4, missed it in description. But device trees for this has not been created and tested.
> So what do you suggest here:
> Should I add it here in B4 board support or should I remove its references altogether?
What's the difference between B4220 and B4420 or B4860?
- k
[SL] B4220 is again a reduced personality of B4 with some differences like:
Even lesser Number of cores than B4860 and B4420, lesser number of SerDes lanes and some difference in other peripherals.
BR,
Shaveta
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>>
>> 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 is a reduced personality of 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
>> - 2X 4 lane serdes
>> - 3 SGMII interfaces
>> - no sRIO
>> - no 10G
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Shaveta Leekha <shaveta at freescale.com>
>> ---
>> arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/Kconfig | 16 +++++
>> arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/Makefile | 1 +
>> arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/b4_qds.c | 102
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 3 files changed, 119 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644
>> arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/b4_qds.c
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