[PATCH v2 1/2] fsl/corenet_generic: add a particular initialization for platform

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Apr 25 04:47:04 EST 2014


On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 13:46 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 01:43 -0500, Wang Dongsheng-B40534 wrote:
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Wood Scott-B07421
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 3:36 AM
> > > To: Wang Dongsheng-B40534
> > > Cc: Jin Zhengxiong-R64188; haokexin at gmail.com; Kushwaha Prabhakar-B32579;
> > > linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] fsl/corenet_generic: add a particular initialization
> > > for platform
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 2014-04-15 at 21:58 -0500, Wang Dongsheng-B40534 wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Wood Scott-B07421
> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 3:39 AM
> > > > > To: Wang Dongsheng-B40534
> > > > > Cc: Jin Zhengxiong-R64188; haokexin at gmail.com; Kushwaha
> > > > > Prabhakar-B32579; linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> > > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] fsl/corenet_generic: add a particular
> > > > > initialization for platform
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, 2014-04-15 at 13:53 +0800, Dongsheng Wang wrote:
> > > > > > From: Wang Dongsheng <dongsheng.wang at freescale.com>
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Corenet_generic is a generic platform initialization. Those based
> > > > > > on the corenet_generic board maybe need a particular initialize to
> > > > > > enable/set some IP-Blocks. So add "Fix Generic Initialization" to
> > > > > > solve this kind of special cases.
> > > > >
> > > > > I still don't understand what you mean by "fix".  What are you
> > > > > fixing, or what is fixed?
> > > > >
> > > > > There is no need for adding an infrastructure layer here.  Just add
> > > > > a new piece of code for t104x diu, and have it be called by an
> > > > > appropriate initfunc.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > "fix" is means to handle some boards those based on corenet_generic
> > > > config file, But those boards may need some special handle. Perhaps
> > > > these used to handle special feature codes not have an appropriate
> > > > initfunc we cannot *just find* an appropriate place,
> > > 
> > > I'm not asking you to "just find" anything.  I'm asking you to add an initfunc
> > > in a standalone file.
> > > 
> > > > if more and more boards need to do this, at that time maybe *initfunc*
> > > > looks very complicated.
> > > 
> > > They would each have their own initfunc.  There is no reason to tie this in with
> > > anything else.
> > > 
> > 
> > Sorry, if those platforms are using corenet_generic, I don’t see any standalone file
> > for initfunc of platform. That's why I'm adding "fix" layer.
> 
> It's totally unnecessary.
> 
> Just do this:
> 
> t104x_diu_init(void)
> {

s/t104x_diu_init/static void t104x_diu_init/ of course.

-Scott




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