[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/6] arm: am57xx: reintroduce the CONFIG_AM57XX symbol

Uri Mashiach uri.mashiach at compulab.co.il
Wed Feb 15 13:50:49 UTC 2017



On 02/15/2017 01:30 PM, Roger Quadros wrote:
> On 15/02/17 10:24, Roger Quadros wrote:
>> On 14/02/17 22:12, Tom Rini wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 01:26:24PM -0600, Nishanth Menon wrote:
>>>> On 02/14/2017 01:20 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 01:18:20PM -0600, menon.nishanth at gmail.com wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 7:27 AM, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 01:34:52PM +0200, Uri Mashiach wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The SOC family symbol CONFIG_AM57XX was removed by the commit
>>>>>>>> 3891a54: "ARM: DRA7x/AM57xx: Get rid of CONFIG_AM57XX".
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The symbol is needed by the XHCI OMAP USB driver.
>>>>>>>> Without the symbol all the AM57x targets symbols should be ored in the
>>>>>>>> ifdef'ery.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Uri Mashiach <uri.mashiach at compulab.co.il>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We need to introduce it into Kconfig files now, thanks!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> DRA7 and AM57xx are literally the same. the #ifdeffery in USB is more
>>>>>> to do which port to use rather than having anything to do with DRA7 Vs
>>>>>> AM57xx.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, agreed.  And we need to solve this, and introduce some Kconfig
>>>>> CONFIG symbol to deal with it.  Maybe the better way to look at this is,
>>>>> can we have DRA7xx boards configured in the way Uri wants to be able to
>>>>> configure the AM57xx board he's working with? And vice versa?  The
>>>>> answer to that will help drive what the right CONFIG_xxx name is.
>>>>
>>>> Should'nt be ideally done via DM model instead? I have no
>>>> understanding of USB integration done in u-boot to comment better.
>>>
>>> That's also something that could be explored.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, ideally this should be taken care of by DM.
>> Till that migration is complete I'm fine with fixing this temporarily.
>>
>> OMAP5, DRA7, AM57 and AM43 use different XHCI_BASE address.
>>
> Just to clarify further on this
> DRA7 and AM57 are identical SoCs but the EVMs are using different
> instances of the USB as host so the difference in XHCI_BASE.
>
> DRA7-evm uses USB1 instance whereas AM57x-EVM uses USB0 instance as host.
>
Alternative solution:
* Definition of registers base groups for USB0 and USB1.
* Target based definition of XHCI_USB0 or XHCI_USB1.
* Selection of register base group based on the definition of XHCI_USB0 
or XHCI_USB1.


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