Cyril Chemparathy <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> This patch series adds support for TNETV107X - a Texas Instruments SOC that
> shares a number of common features with the Davinci architecture.
>
> Some of the patches included in this series were posted earlier, but have also
> been included here.

I'm planning to merge patches 1-8 and 10 to davinci git.
The others have had some issues raised that need to be discussed and/or 
addressed.

Kevin


> The key differences between traditional Davincis and this new SOC are:
>
> 1. The SOCs clock architecture includes a new spread-spectrum PLL.  Some
> elements of the clock architecture are reused from Davinci (e.g. LPSC), but
> the PLL related code is overridden using existing interfaces in "struct clk".
>
> 2. The MMR layout on this SOC is substantially different from Davinci.
> Consequently, the fixed I/O map is a whole lot more convoluted (more so than
> DA8xx).  The net impact here is that IO_ADDRESS() will not work on this SoC,
> and therefore all mappings have to be through ioremap().
>
> 3. The Davinci reset mechanism (via Timer64 watchdog) will not work on this
> SoC.  This difference has not been addressed here (dummy davinci_wdt_device),
> but a more "extensible" reset mechanism will need to be established
> eventually.
>
> 4. The GPIO controller on this device is different.  Currently, this patch
> leaves the traditional Davinci GPIO numbers (0..DAVINCI_N_GPIO) unused so that
> the inline GPIO implementation can remain unmodified.  TNETV107X GPIOs are
> exposed as higher numbered GPIOs, and are currently accessible only through
> a non-inline version.
>
>
> Despite all efforts, I could not retain a unified build across davinci and
> tnetv107x devices. The code included in this patch series does not impose
> such a limitation in itself, but the underlying ARM code fails to build when
> both 926 and 1176 Kconfig options are set.
>
>
> - Cyril.
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