[U-Boot] DM: Problem with DT bus translation dev_get_addr()

Stefan Roese sr at denx.de
Tue Sep 1 17:23:53 CEST 2015


Hi Simon,

On 01.09.2015 08:25, Stefan Roese wrote:
> I'm currently enabling DM support for the Marvell MVEBU SoC's I've
> been working lately on (Armada XP and 38x right now). A problem I'm
> facing here is the bus translation, as this is quite complex for these
> SoC's. With multiple levels of translation ranges (multiple simple-bus
> nodes to walk through).
>
> The current implementation in dev_get_addr() does not work. This has
> 2 reasons:
>
> a) It only translates 1 simple-bus node - we need to walk the
>     complete DT to get the correct address.
>
> b) The "ranges" property can have different sizes for "address"
>     and "size" in all these busses / nodes. And also multiple
>     ranges tuples are allowed and used in these dts files.
>
> Of course this can be solved in the current implementation (device.c /
> simple_bus.c). But especially b) is not that trivial to solve in
> a generic way.
>
> So my main question is, why don't you use fdt_translate_address()
> from fdt_support.c instead of implementing your own translation
> function simple_bus_translate()? Is this a size question because
> this may be used in SPL as well?

The attached small patch demonstrates the usage of 
fdt_translate_address() and enables bus translation on the MVEBU platforms.

Thanks,
Stefan

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