[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 2/4] aspeed: Add basic ast2500-specific drivers and configuration

Maxim Sloyko maxims at google.com
Thu Jan 26 19:02:26 CET 2017


On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 6:23 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> On 18 January 2017 at 14:44, Maxim Sloyko <maxims at google.com> wrote:
>> Clock Driver
>>
>> This driver is ast2500-specific and is not compatible with earlier
>> versions of this chip. The differences are not that big, but they are
>> in somewhat random places, so making it compatible with ast2400 is not
>> worth the effort at the moment.
>>
>> SDRAM MC driver
>>
>> The driver is very ast2500-specific and is completely incompatible
>> with previous versions of the chip.
>>
>> The memory controller is very poorly documented by Aspeed in the
>> datasheet, with any mention of the whole range of registers missing. The
>> initialization procedure has been basically taken from Aspeed SDK, where
>> it is implemented in assembly. Here it is rewritten in C, with very limited
>> understanding of what exactly it is doing.
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Changes in v4:
>> - Expanded AST2500 EVB description in Kconfig
>> - Added docstrings for ast_get_clk() and ast_get_scu()
>> - Fixed include file ordering
>> - Added docstring for ast2500_get_uart_clk_rate
>> - Use dev_get_addr_ptr
>> - Use WDT helper function to reset memory controller
>>
>> Changes in v3: None
>> Changes in v2: None
>> Changes in v1:
>> - Merge together all patches related to ast2500 specific drivers
>> - Add Copyright statement to all c/h files
>> - Use DT include from Linux Kernel, Add U-Boot specific modifications in
>>   ast2500-u-boot.dtsi
>>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Maxim Sloyko <maxims at google.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm/dts/ast2500-u-boot.dtsi                 |  53 +++
>>  arch/arm/dts/ast2500.dtsi                        | 174 +++++++++
>>  arch/arm/include/asm/arch-aspeed/scu_ast2500.h   | 125 +++++++
>>  arch/arm/include/asm/arch-aspeed/sdram_ast2500.h | 138 ++++++++
>>  arch/arm/mach-aspeed/Kconfig                     |   2 +
>>  arch/arm/mach-aspeed/Makefile                    |   1 +
>>  arch/arm/mach-aspeed/ast2500/Kconfig             |  14 +
>>  arch/arm/mach-aspeed/ast2500/Makefile            |   1 +
>>  arch/arm/mach-aspeed/ast2500/clk_ast2500.c       |  30 ++
>>  arch/arm/mach-aspeed/ast2500/sdram_ast2500.c     | 432 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  drivers/clk/Makefile                             |   2 +
>>  drivers/clk/aspeed/Makefile                      |   7 +
>>  drivers/clk/aspeed/clk_ast2500.c                 | 265 ++++++++++++++
>>  include/dt-bindings/clock/ast2500-scu.h          |  29 ++
>>  14 files changed, 1273 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/dts/ast2500-u-boot.dtsi
>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/dts/ast2500.dtsi
>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/arch-aspeed/scu_ast2500.h
>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/arch-aspeed/sdram_ast2500.h
>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-aspeed/ast2500/Kconfig
>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-aspeed/ast2500/Makefile
>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-aspeed/ast2500/clk_ast2500.c
>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-aspeed/ast2500/sdram_ast2500.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/clk/aspeed/Makefile
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/clk/aspeed/clk_ast2500.c
>>  create mode 100644 include/dt-bindings/clock/ast2500-scu.h
>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>
> A few nits for later:
>
> I think it is better to define a shifted mask:
>
> #define SDRAM_REFRESH_PERIOD_SHIFT     8
> #define SDRAM_REFRESH_PERIOD_MASK      (0xf << SDRAM_REFRESH_PERIOD_SHIFT)
>
> What is CONFIG_DUALX8_RAM for? Can this be encoded in the device tree?

This should be used when the board has two DRAM PHY chips connected to
single controller. At least that's my understanding.
We don't use that configuration on any of our boards, so probably it
would be easier just to remove it.

>
> Regards,
> Simon



-- 
Maxim Sloyko


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