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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4] hsdk: initial port for HSDK board
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On 06/05/2017 12:50 PM, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> This initial port adds support of ARC HS Development Kit board with some
> basic features such serial port, USB, SD/MMC and Ethernet.
>
> Essentially we run Linux kernel on all 4 cores (i.e. utilize SMP) and
> heavily use IO Coherency for speeding-up DMA-aware peripherals.
>
> Note as opposed to other ARC boards we link Linux kernel to
> 0x9000_0000 intentionally because cores 1 and 3 configured with DCCM
> situated at our more usual link base 0x8000_0000.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev <paltsev@synopsys.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
> ---
>
> Changes v3 -> v4:
> * Removed senseless "ranges" property from "memory" node in .dts
> * Refined early-boot code:
> - CREG_PAE should be set only once thus master does that in init_early()
> - ICCM relocation should be done on each and every core that sports ICCM
> so we leave it in init_per_cpu(). Even though init_per_cpu() gets called
> on the master core pretty late still it is way much earlier than that
> moment when it might affect us - as it only huts us when addresses in
> 0x7z-0x7fff_ffff range are used, i.e. virtual addresses that we don't
> use during init. This also makes code much cleaner compared to
> additional check in case of master etc.

So you are assuming that vmalloc machinery would not have kicked in by then i.e.
by the time of irq_init() i.e. - perhaps that is true. Lets go with what you have
now....

-Vineet

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