[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 4/7] Tegra114: Add common CPU (shared) files

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Tue Jan 22 22:53:47 CET 2013


Hi Tom,

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Tom Warren <twarren.nvidia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Simon,
>
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Tom Warren <twarren.nvidia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Simon,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>>>> Hi Tom,
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Tom Warren <twarren.nvidia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> These files are used by both SPL and main U-Boot.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Tom Warren <twarren at nvidia.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> Changes in v2:
>>>>> - update all new copyright header dates to 2013
>>>>> - use ODMDATA correctly in query_dram_size
>>>>>
>>>>>  arch/arm/cpu/tegra-common/ap.c         |    9 +-
>>>>>  arch/arm/cpu/tegra-common/board.c      |   21 +-
>>>>>  arch/arm/cpu/tegra114-common/Makefile  |   41 ++
>>>>>  arch/arm/cpu/tegra114-common/clock.c   | 1150 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>  arch/arm/cpu/tegra114-common/funcmux.c |   63 ++
>>>>>  arch/arm/cpu/tegra114-common/pinmux.c  |  506 ++++++++++++++
>>>>>  6 files changed, 1786 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/cpu/tegra114-common/Makefile
>>>>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/cpu/tegra114-common/clock.c
>>>>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/cpu/tegra114-common/funcmux.c
>>>>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/cpu/tegra114-common/pinmux.c
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm a bit concerned about the code duplication here. Isn't much of
>>>> this code common?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Simon
>>>
>>> funcmux.c differs almost entirely (different muxes for different UARTs
>>> used on the boards). Pinmux.c differs quite a bit, mostly in tables.
>>> And clock.c has a few minor name diffs (DVC vs I2C5), but there are
>>> extra enums for the additional RST/ENA bits on T114, plus the
>>> differences in clock_early_init WRT the PLL rates. And that's just for
>>> the T30 vs. T114 differences - T20 is vastly different in it's pinmux
>>> HW regs, and device RST/ENA bits.
>>
>> I suppose I was mostly thinking of clock.c - most of that code looks
>> very familiar.
>>
>>>
>>> I view it as a worthy exercise that could be applied after T114
>>> baseline code is in, to see just how much more common code could be
>>> factored out and put into arm/cpu/tegra-common, but I don't see it as
>>> being a huge amount.  T30 and T114 would share the most code, but
>>> where would it go? since it can't be shared w/T20?
>>>
>>> Tom
>>
>> We had the same discussion with T30. I suppose you could have clock.c
>> for common stuff and clock-t20.c, clock-t30.c, etc. for the extra /
>> unusual bits.
>
> OK, since I have to do a V3 patchset for T114 anyway, I'll take a pass
> at it. But only for clock code - I don't want to get too bogged down -
> there's too much backing up on the tracks behind me ;)

OK thanks. This sort of core code is sometimes hard to revisit later...

Regards,
Simon

>
> Tom
>>
>> Regards,
>> Simon


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