[U-Boot] [PATCH 07/11] MX6: use macro building for MX6Q/MX6DL iomux regs

Nikita Kiryanov nikita at compulab.co.il
Thu Apr 10 16:51:48 CEST 2014


On 04/10/2014 05:08 PM, Nikita Kiryanov wrote:
> On 04/09/2014 06:46 PM, Tim Harvey wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Nikita Kiryanov
>> <nikita at compulab.co.il> wrote:
>>> Hi Tim,
>>>
>>>
>>> On 04/03/2014 09:01 AM, Tim Harvey wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This is an attempt at using a macro to allow mx6dl-ddr.h and
>>>> mx6q-ddr.h registers to be used together which is needed for an SPL
>>>> bootloader
>>>> that can run on either CPU's and must configure MMDC iomux dynamically.
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to come up with a solution similar to Eric's approach
>>>> with the
>>>> similar issue regarding IMX pinmux but this approach is broken in that
>>>> imximage
>>>> will choke on the cfgtmp file due to the fact that the pre-processor
>>>> won't
>>>> use the enum's as it did the #defines. I'm looking for some positive
>>>> suggestions here or perhaps someone else can come up with a solution
>>>> for
>>>> this
>>>> particular issue which I haven't been able to resolve.
>>>
>>>
>>> Why can't you just rename the register name #defines without enclosing
>>> them in an anonymous enum? Then they could coexist and will be usable
>>> by imximage.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Nikita.
>>
>> Nikita,
>>
>> The cfg files are currently all written to use the IOMUX register
>> names as MX6_ (no Q vs DL)  so that a single cfg file can be used for a
>> build-time configuration of IMX6Q or IMX6DL.
>
> OK now I understand. It seems to me that you only have this problem
> because you are using these address #defines as values for
> mx6_mmdc_ioregs structs to define a register mapping. You can
> also define this mapping by using a struct template that matches the
> register layout and a base address, both of which change between CPU
> types.
>
> You can find an example of this in the Wandboard SPL implementation.

Here I'm referring to the file arch/arm/include/asm/arch-mx6/mx6_ddr_regs.h
(which I'm guessing you may have already seen based on your comment on
patch 11...)

> It's not in mainline ATM so you'll have to download their BSP.
> The template + base addr method also doesn't use up additional memory
> to define this layout, which is a point in its favor.
>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tim
>>
>
>


-- 
Regards,
Nikita.


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