[U-Boot] [PATCH] arch: powerpc: Retain compatible property for L2 cache

[Chris Packham]

Instead of setting the compatible property to "cache", append the
desired value retaining what may already be set in the current property.

Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham at gmail.com>
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On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 6:41 AM, york sun <york.sun at nxp.com> wrote:
> On 11/23/2016 01:43 AM, Chris Packham wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was just looking at what it would take to add the T2080 L2 cache to
>> the mpc85xx_edac driver in Linux. At a cursory glance all the
>> registers appear to be there so I figured I'd just add the
>> appropriate
>> entry to the of match table.
>>
>> To my surprise I found that the compatible string in my device tree
>> was overwritten with "cache". I've tracked this down to the
>> CONFIG_SYS_FSL_QORIQ_CHASSIS2 implementation of ft_fixup_l2cache in
>> u-boot.
>>
>> The CONFIG_L2_CACHE version seems to take care to update the device
>> tree node to
>>
>>   compatible = "fsl,t2080-l2-cache-controller", "cache";
>>
>> but the CONFIG_SYS_FSL_QORIQ_CHASSIS2 version just sets this to
>>
>>   compatible = "cache";
>>
>> Is this an over-site or is it intentional?
>>
>
> I don't have any record of this discussion. Kumar wrote and committed
> this change. I hope he remembers.
>

Here's a patch that retains the compatible property from the
original dtb and adds the "cache" value if required. This gets
the value I need through to the kernel.

 arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/fdt.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/fdt.c b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/fdt.c
index 047c972ac78e..f31df41836d5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/fdt.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/fdt.c
@@ -337,7 +337,8 @@ static inline void ft_fixup_l2cache(void *blob)
 			fdt_setprop_cell(blob, l2_off, "cache-size", size);
 			fdt_setprop_cell(blob, l2_off, "cache-sets", num_sets);
 			fdt_setprop_cell(blob, l2_off, "cache-level", 2);
-			fdt_setprop(blob, l2_off, "compatible", "cache", 6);
+			if (fdt_node_check_compatible(blob, l2_off, "cache") == 1)
+				fdt_appendprop_string(blob, l2_off, "compatible", "cache");
 		}
 
 		if (l3_off < 0) {
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