[U-Boot] [PATCH 5/6] powerpc/85xx: do not initialize QE if QE's firmware is in nand flash

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Jan 31 22:37:00 CET 2011


Dear Haiying Wang,

In message <1296507737.2049.518.camel at haiying-laptop> you wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 21:08 +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > Dear Haiying.Wang at freescale.com,
> > 
> > In message <1296499317-26616-6-git-send-email-Haiying.Wang at freescale.com> you wrote:
> > > From: Haiying Wang <Haiying.Wang at freescale.com>
> > > 
> > > For some board which doesn't have NOR flash and the QE's firmware(ucode) is
> > > saved in its NAND flash, we don't want call qe_init in cpu_init_r, but will
> > > call it later after nand is initialized.
> > 
> > Is there a pressing reason to do this so early for other boards?  Can
> > not all boards initialize this later?
> > 
> My understanding is that QE is a cpu feature, so it is called early in
> cpu_init_r. As Kumar recommended before, I can move qe_init from
> cpu_init_r to misc_init_r for every 85xx boards with qe support. Is it
> acceptable to you?

Yes, if this way we can avoid to do the same thing at different
points in the initialization sequence.

Thanks.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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