[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 10/13] arm: mvebu: Add dynamic SoC detection to mbus driver
Stefan Roese
sr at denx.de
Wed Apr 15 10:45:09 CEST 2015
Hi Thomas,
On 14.04.2015 17:31, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 12:46:52 +0200, Stefan Roese wrote:
>
>> + if (mvebu_soc_family() == MVEBU_SOC_AXP)
>> + w->mbus_attr |= ATTR_HW_COHERENCY;
>
> Why is this Armada XP specific? Both Armada XP and Armada 38x support
> HW I/O coherency. But are you actually using HW I/O coherency in U-Boot
> for Armada XP ?
No, not really. This file is pretty much cloned from the Linux version.
So its a remnant from there. Even though this coherency is not used in
U-Boot.
> It would probably be simpler to not use HW I/O coherency at all in
> U-Boot, be it for AXP or A38x.
Right. I'll remove this, either in a new patchset version or in a follow
up patch. Thanks for the hint.
Thanks,
Stefan
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